Evan-Made Chili

Throughout the past two years of living on my own, I’ve really been able to work on some of my cooking skills. But stuff like brownies? Yeah, still can’t do it. I burnt the crap outta the last batch I did…But if it’s something that’s made on the stove top, I’ve gotten pretty good at it. So as an experiment, this is my first ever attempt at making chili. My methodology of cooking isn’t really about exactness, just gut feelings and hunches. Let’s hope that my gut was in the right place:

First, the ingredients.

We got some beans (3 types), stewed tomatoes, green chili pepper, tomato sauce, dried malagueta peppers, beef, chili mix, and some onion. Good stuff.

First thing I did was sautee the onion and green chili in my huge frying pan. It took a little longer than I wanted to since there was too much surface area, but I got the right result in the end.

Before being cooked

Being cooked

After that sauteed, I did some cooking of le beef.

Before being cooked (see a trend?)

Being cooked

After that fully cooked, I added back the onion and pepper and threw in all the beans as well as the stewed tomatoes.

Look at all those colors...my mommy would be proud

After that all cooked/heated up, I added the chili mix and the malaguetas that I crushed up.

My favorite picture...seriously, it's gorgeous

Another nice picture with some whole peppers

Chili mix/crushed peppers on top

After mixing that all in, I added the sauce.

Everything mixed together

And as easy as it sounds (since it really was that easy) I was done! Serve and eat!

Pepperjack and aji garnish

Not spicy enough for me...ahh Jerk sauce

This totally compensated for my horrible brownies. Friggin’ amazing! I liked documenting this though, so expect to see some of these kind of posts once in a while.