Friday, September 11, 2009

Cooking Crisis!

This whole week the guys have been working at putting up two grain bins. The crew hired to do it and then the three of the guys here have worked everyday this week, except for wed., pretty much without stopping...not even for lunch! But both bins were completed today...now just the finishing touches. Anyways, because today was the last day the whole crew would be here, and it was supposed to be a cool, rainy day...I decided to make chili and cinnamon rolls for lunch. So early this morning started finding things to put in my chili and realized my kitchen was lacking chili powder!!!! Have you ever made chili without chili powder? Well just a word to the wise...DO NOT add cayenne pepper as if it were chili powder...speaking from experience! After cooking the chili in the crock pot for an hour it was time for the taste test.........and yes, after a glass of milk and some sugar my mouth was still burning! Now what?!?!? an hour and a half till this disaster is to be served! Long story short...after draining as much of the liquid off as possible and adding some beef broth, Heinz 57 sauce, a bit of ketchup, garlic, onion, a tablespoon of sugar and salt and pepper it was finally edible! In fact when lunch was over there was not a tiny spoonful left in the pot! Even though it was a hot day! I do have to say that is the first time ever we have not had leftover chili!!! So I think I have found a new recipe! Above is a picture of them putting the side on the little bin.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

HAHA this totally sounds like something I would do! Fore sure! :) I'm sure that I wouldn't have known how to fix it though! I'm glad that it all worked out for you! Heheh.

ant Vik said...

Yep, been there, done that. My solution was to call Mom, for more chili ingredients and we made another pot only no more heat. Your solution was much better, as mine was still too hot.
Vicki M

Benjamin Ranch said...

so I'm not the only one !! Your kids are growing so fast!