Re: [CH] Re: Bad Attitude Chile
Kit Anderson (kitridge@bigfoot.com)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:41:35 -0800
> Well I live in Milwaukee,Wisconsin, and at the last minute decided to enter a
> Chili contest at the usual wateringhole. So I went with Bad Attitude chili.
> The changes I made were these : Using chunks of tenderloin for the meat. Good
> idea. I beaned. I forgot the chocolate. Port instead of bourbon. Toned down
> the heat a little.
> My husband said it was the best I ever made. The judges didn't even have me in
> the top ten out of 14 entries. The 1st place chili was as bland as a lutefisk
> dinner (that's cardboard for those of you not from the hinterlands)
> Lesson: Know your audience.
Chili contests are very subjective. Outside of Texas, it gets even
worse. I once entered Bad Attitude made with moose and chorizo. It was
great. No...it was spectacular. It came in last place because it "didn't
have any tomatoes or green peppers". The winners are either salty Hormel
or sweet spaghetti sauce with kidney beans.
To paraphrase Puck, "What foods these morsels be." Something needs to be
done to educate people about chili.
If you forget or don't have chocolate, coffee can be added for the
requisite earthiness.
Lutefisk chili? With a little Dave's or Calvin's....hmmmm.
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Kit Anderson ICQ# 2242257
Bath, Maine <kitridge@bigfoot.com>
got chiles?