Yesterday wasn’t much fun. I was pretty much incapacitated with a headache that felt like someone was trying to nail one of my eyes shut. I’ve still got a bit of an achy remnant, but I’m better enough that I’m at work. I’ve got lunches ready to go for quite a while too. Monday night I’d put a crock pot together in preparation for doing some beer-based chili, and I was feeling well enough late Tuesday to finish it off.
I don’t tend to use a fixed recipe when I’m making chili… I consider it more like variations on a theme. So long as the basic motive of tomato and bean are there, I can improvise a fugue with the meat and spices along with a counterpoint of additional ingredients.
Ok, ignore that last bit. I sound incredibly pompous…
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