[CH] My best vegetarian chile

raincrone@juno.com
Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:58:50 -0500 

This is one of only four or five recipes I've created in my life that
I've liked well enough to stick my name on.  It's a vegetarian chili with
just about the taste, look and mouthfeel of a good diner-style
ground-meat chili, only hotter, and if I do say so myself, it's bitchin'.
   

Purists, you can just look the other way; sorry, but for your objections
to calling the vegetarian product "chili", or to the use of beans, or to
the ground-meat-chili concept itself,  I fear I cannot find it in me to
give a tin shit in a paper privy.  Go ye in peace and leave me to my
chili. :)

-Begin Recipe Export- QBook version 1.00.14

Title: Rain's bowl of red
Keywords: main dishes, soups, vegetarian, vegan

All amounts are flexible.
Blenderize:
      1 medium-small onion
      1 rib celery
      2 ripe medium tomatoes
 in:
     good saltfree or low-salt vegetable stock.

Place in crockpot or kettle with:

Vegetable stock
1 pkg pinto beans, precooked about 2/3 done, drained
3/4 c bulghur 
3/4 c TVP, plain granules, reconstituted with water
2 small or one large bay leaf
8 or 9 good hearty splashes of mushroom soy sauce
  -=OR=- same am't regular soy sauce and a minced shiitake 	mushroom
About 1/2 c. FRESHLY MADE, NON-INSTANT black coffee
1 or 2 level tsp. peanut butter
Minced cayennes or serranos
One minced ancho
One minced habanero
LOTS of good chili powder, preferably saltfree (the soy sauce 
            adds a good deal of salt)
3 cloves garlic
1-2 Tbsp. paprika
1-2 Tbsp. oil
Black pepper

In a kettle, simmer all till beans are tender, stirring occasionally from
the bottom.  Watch liquid level and do not allow to scorch!  In crockpot,
cook 2-3 hours on High and then overnight on Low, stirring from the
bottom as you lower the heat.  Serve with crackers or grilled cheese
sammidges and toe-curling cowboy coffee.
  -- Recipe by Rain Adkins
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Keep on rockin', 
Rain
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