Any chili fans?

[4NDR01D]

I guess it's the colder weather, but I make a lot of chili in the fall and winter. However, I don't have a steadfast recipe and make it different just about every time. Typically I use equal parts hamburger and hot sausage (taken out of casing and mixed with the hamburger meat). I like a sweet and spicy chili and have used honey, maple syrup, brown sugar and Pineapple on occasion to sweeten it up. Not a huge bean fan so I usually keep the beans to a minimum, Usually one can of red Kidney. I find lots of otherwise good chili gets ruined by too much beans, I'd rather have more meat in mine.

So, how do you make your chili?

[fallensaviour]

Love chili,
Recipe I use;
1 can pork and beans
1 can beans in tomatoe sauce
1 can maple style/Quebec style beans
1 can kidney beans rinsed
1 can green beans
1 can chick peas
1 green pepper
1 red pepper
1 large white onion
2 lbs hamburger

[Nostalgiabuff]

love me some chile. my wife makes a good one but I don't know the recipe. has hamburger of course and a couple types beans

[Mikey]

Love Chili -- note: MUST HAVE BEANS

The Hormel one (with beans) is pretty good

[PNGwynne]

I like a lot of meat in my chili--sometimes both beef and sausage--and I use kidney, pinto, and black beans. I think mine is rather good, it's not super-hot but uses some seasonings not common to Midwestern chili. Sometimes I add in a beer, too.

For canned chili (in a pinch but not preferred) I like Wolf's Homestyle.

[Duncan]

I like it, but I'm usually too hungry/lazy to do it myself. I can live with Wendy's, but I'm lucky to have a Skyline 5 min from my house.

[PNGwynne]

Mmmmm Skyline. And Wendy's is classic, I add the hot sauce.

[emeraldknight47]

I love a good, steaming bowl of chili on a cold day; nothing else like it. I use my Mom's base recipe for chili, but I've added various ingredients to both jazz it and thicken it up a bit (my Mom's chili, while delicious, was more soup like). I have forgone using hamburger in my chili because it doesn't agree too well with my innards, so now I use a combination of ground turkey, chicken and sausage and I don't even miss the hamburger. Onions, gotta have sweet onions for my chili as well as various other spices (cumin, cinnamon, allspice, cayenne and even, occasionally, a dash of unsweetened cocoa). I like beans in my chili, but not to the extent that they overwhelm the chili and I am one of those folks who like spaghetti in his chili, two. I've been known to throw a beer in a pot of chili on more that one occasion, but if I really want to get a good, unique flavour, I add about a cup of bourbon---really makes the chili pop!

[cjefferys]

Oh yeah, chili weather is coming! I usually make it with beef, kidney beans, onions, peppers, those ingredients are a must. The most important thing to me is that it must be thick, really thick! Nothing worse than watery chili IMO.

[Hector]

While original chili doesn't feature beans...I like mine with beans...to be more specific...pinto beans.

[Mikey]

For me the worst chili is the stuff made to put on chilidogs

This crap is basically dog food with a few spices.

[hedrap]

I do a few kinds. Vegetarian, ***oli, Tex-Mex

If you're making the classic Tex-Mex, one secret ingredient is chocolate. Not a lot, cocoa powder is the best choice.

[Grimjohn]

I freakin' love chili.

I will make one of two kinds: an extremely spicy thick chili and a looser medium spicy one. I use kidney and black beans in both. I usually bake up a batch of cornbread muffins to go with either kind.

[Random Axe]

I make a pretty good srirachili. Lots of meat and beans and fairly thick. Put some Fritos in the bottom of the bowl and pour/scoop the chili on top of it and cover with shredded cheddar/asiago/jack. Or pout it on top of spaghetti noodles. I didn't get fat by accident

[Random Axe]

The secret with chili beans is to put them in a bowl first and mush them up a bit with a fork or spatula. They will become much softer during the cooking phase and will be far easier to digest.