No beans

While on the subject of cooking, let me share with you something I found out today. Now I'm a big fan of chili - and after discovering the fantastic cornbread recepie yesterday I dediced that I would cheer up Dragon with a chili to celebrate his return from the land of the free. I have my patented chili recipe but I recently found a really cool recipe site called Recipezaar so I had a look what kind of chili recipes they had.

Turns out that the original chili from Texas that the cowboys have eaten for centuries does not have beans in it. So I researched the subject further. It seems that in the Lone Star State it's nearly a hanging offence to put bean in chili - although if you call it chili beans you could get away with it, and even then it's a crime to put white beans in it. If there's one thing I've learned about Texans and food, is that they are extremely passionate about it - and more often than elsewhere cooking is something that men do. And I could even go as far as saying that if there's one good thing about Texas, it would have to be the fabulous food they have there (only a normal human can't eat the amounts they consume).

So as an experiment, I'm doing chili Texan style today - just ground beef (or bison as we prefer our bovine these days), onion, tomato sauce (and another Teaxan revelation: no tomato chunks, just pureed tomato sauce which I was not able to find from Capers) and insane amounts of chili powder and Cayene pepper, and a sprinkle of cumin and oregano. I can feel the heat already, so this definetly needs to be consumed with corn bread.

Live and learn.