Canned Chili Connoisseurs?

[letusbuyyourcar]

I've made a lot of homemade chili over the years, but for a quick shortcut, we use Tabasco brand chili mix in the pint jars. Used to be able to buy it at Publix, but now you have to order direct from factory.

Brown up some ground beef/deer or combo with onions/garlic, add the mix and beans to your liking. And you have some fairly decent chili in an hour. I like a 4 bean chili mix of 1 can each, pintos, red beans, light kidneys, dark kidneys This would be for a pot with 2 pounds of meat.

Growing up poor, we ate a lot of beans, good source of protein. My dad lived to 95 eating lots of beans.

I like to use several different beans too. Most of the time I will use one can of seasoned chili beans. Then I use at least one can of kidney beans and a can of black beans. But we love black beans here at my house. I can have black beans with rice and some diced jalapenos and call it dinner. Some boiled okra really sets it off but you don't have to do it that way.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

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Somebody back when in my family was running a still on the farm by the pond. Nobody seems to know who. My cousins & I found it in the 70's.

Ain't naming no names but I know a member of local law enforcement who makes liquor. I keep trying to get him to let me watch/help the process.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Ima tell Beulah Land on you. How dare you not like hot sauce!

You want to put it on a chip? Fine. You want to dip French fries in it? Knock yourself out. But if you are putting it on FOOD, i.e. a main dish, you messed up from the get-go.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

That's not bad hot sauce. That's what my stepfather used to buy most of the time and put on pork rinds.

Louisiana is awesome.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

You want to put it on a chip? Fine. You want to dip French fries in it? Knock yourself out. But if you are putting it on FOOD, i.e. a main dish, you messed up from the get-go.

I see where you’re going. I love me some hot sauce though. Some food needs it IMO though. Chicken fingers, tacos, dirty rice, omelets, ….

 

[Beulah Land]

Ima tell Beulah Land on you. How dare you not like hot sauce!

Wait, what did I do again?

 

[GeauxLSU]

Some food needs it IMO though.....dirty rice ….

For the love of all that is holy.
I'ma get in my time machine and pretend I never read that.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

Wait, what did I do again?

We have hot sauce nay sayers amongst us.

 

[lostchild]

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Ain't naming no names but I know a member of local law enforcement who makes liquor. I keep trying to get him to let me watch/help the process.

My stepdad ran a 150 gallon still back when I was a kid. Best I can remember, it wasn't rocket science.
Mostly remember me and mom doing sugar runs all over town.
The smell of that mash fermenting, though....

 

[BIKER13]

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Ain't naming no names but I know a member of local law enforcement who makes liquor. I keep trying to get him to let me watch/help the process.

Plenty of info on makin licker. My first still was a pressure cooker,copper tubing,cooler with ice. We did apple and peach brandy.Would bead 3 inches on a glass and was proofed at 130 one time. Held a gun on each other to drink it
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