A rose by any other name....

Yesterday I tried out my culinery skills on a recipe that was provided by a Women's Council member from Medina. The Medina Chapter is entered in a chili cookoff sponsored by the Board of Realtors.

This recipe was fairly simple and was titled "Chili for a Crowd" making enough to serve 25 people. Well it started out rather mundanely, brown 2#'s of ground beef. Since I was housebound due to the big winter storm, I searched the freezer, and then the freezer in the garage, going down to depths of it's bowels to find NO ground beef. What I did find was a 1# package tube of ground turkey (tasteless) and a 1 # package of chuck steaks. Hmmm! So, I browned the turkey, and diced up the steak and browned that also.

Garlic cloves, (always have them)

2 chopped green peppers (had only a half of a pepper) so I added celery.

I added salt, pepper (did not call for pepper)

28 oz can diced tomatoes (none in the pantry, but I had frozen whole tomatoes in the freezer from the garden)

1 small can tomato paste (had it)

3 onions chopped (got that)

1/4 cup chili powder (had Wahoo Chili powder mix from Tastefully Simple)

2 cans drained kidney beans, (got it)

Here comes the tricky part.

2 teaspoons Cumin (no problem as I swirled the lazy susan of spices in the cupboard. Yep, two teaspoons it is.

Stirred up the whole mess and reached to put the cumin away when my eye caught the full label: Curry

Yea gads! Taste it. Oh my gosh! Now what?

Add sugar

Add cocoa

Add more sugar

Add Tabasco

Cook for 30 minutes more

Good Stuff. Thick and spicey with a faint undertone of......what is that delicate flavor?

Ready to infuse my pot into their two pots in a large roaster, and I bet we get some votes!

See, duplicating a recipe is really easy!