Super Bowl Chili

My recipe for chili usually is a recipe for Kentucky pool hall chili buns that I read in Esquire magazine many years ago. See below.

My friends like this looser no-beans less-tomatoey chili. For tomorrow's Super Bowl party at Harry and Barbara's house, I decided to shake it up a bit. I made a similar chili recipe from Hilah Cooking. Hilah's recipe is intended usually to be a topping for chili dogs. I thickened it up a bit by using a coarse ground beef, instead of a fine-grind hamburger ground beef.

Here it is cooking.

The Super Bowl is tomorrow, so I iced the chili down. It'll sit, covered, in the refrigerator overnight, letting the flavors mingle. Tomorrow, we'll heat the chili in the slow cooker and bring it over to Harry and Barbara's house with some chopped onion, grated Mexican cheese, and a jar of pickled jalapeño slices. Here it is cooked and chilling.

Enjoy the game!

Tailgate

In my last post to this blog, I showed how I made chili dog chili using the Hilah Cooking recipe. The chili dogs were for my family to eat at a FedEx Field tailgate for the Redskins vs. Bears game on 20 Oct. 2013. This is how we served at the tailgate. 

Reheating the chili

The condiments were laid out

Steam-frying the hot dogs and
heating the chili for chili dogs

Steam-frying the hot dogs

Buns & Beer

My wife, awaiting her chili dog

Finished product: delicious chili dogs

Chili Dog Chili for 'Skins Tailgate

Getting ready to make chili for chili dogs for Sunday's FedEx Field tailgate -- Washington Redskins vs. Chicago Bears. Here are the assembled ingredients, including some for the hot dogs. I used the chili dog chili recipe from HilahCooking.com. We'll reheat it at the game and cook the hotdogs there.

Oh, yeah. This also went into the chili.

Here is the finished product, waiting to top our dogs at the tailgate.