Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
cheese chili
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__Emeril Lagasse
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__Japanese proverb
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there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
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__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
Cheese Chili
Ingredients:
2 large onions, diced
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup tomato paste
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 teaspoon cumin seed
3 medium sized carrots, chopped
3 ribs celery, sliced
3 small jalape�o peppers, seeded and minced
28 ounces canned crushed tomatoes
2 cups cooked or canned black beans, rinsed
12 ounces tomato juice [or dark beer, if desired]
4 ounces shredded Mozzarella cheese
4 ounces shredded Monterey Jack cheese
4 ounces shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
Instructions:
1)Saut� onions in butter over medium high heat in large saucepan
'til they're translucent.
2) Add tomato paste, chili powder, cocoa powder, and cumin,
and cook 'til mixture caramelizes to a dark brown.
3) Stir in carrots, celery and jalape�os and stir to coat.
4) Add crushed tomatoes and beans.
5) Stir in tomato juice.
6) Simmer for two hours.
7) Preheat broiler.
8) Stir Mozzarella and Monterey Jack cheese into chili and
top with shredded Cheddar.
9) Broil 'til cheese bubbles, then serve.
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