chili con carne: regular or extra gassy?

[silverwhisper]

eilan's thread, and SJ's comment that to her, chili isn't chili unless it's got beans, got me wondering about this. how do you like your chili? beans or no beans?

and if you're feeling industrious: how do you make yours?

ed

 

[midwestyankee]

Since my chili contains no meat, beans are a necessity in order to have protein in the meal. When combined with grains, legumes provide a complete protein that is healthier than the protein you get from eating meat.

 

[Sarojaede]

I make several variations of chili, all with beans. I have a recipe for a fabulous white bean chili.....mmmmm....

 

[bobsgirl]

Since my chili contains no meat, beans are a necessity in order to have protein in the meal. When combined with grains, legumes provide a complete protein that is healthier than the protein you get from eating meat.

Ohio votes for beans. I also would rather eat vegetarian chili, but when I make it, I always get whining from the audience. But there's no meat in it! You have to have meat!

 

[Sarojaede]

Some days I like vegetarian chili, others, it has to have meat in it.

My white bean chili can be made with or without meat.

One of my favorite with meat chili recipes has chuck and sweet italian sausage in it. It also has black olives in it, which is odd for chili, for some people.

 

[midwestyankee]

Ohio votes for beans. I also would rather eat vegetarian chili, but when I make it, I always get whining from the audience. But there's no meat in it! You have to have meat!

Could you suggest that if the audience brought its own meat "to the table" a little more often that you might be more likely to put meat in the chili?

 

[Verbiwhore]

Beans..... otherwise it's just spicy mince.

 

[midwestyankee]

Beans..... otherwise it's just spicy mince.

Mmmm.....mince pie.

 

[Verbiwhore]

Mmmm.....mince pie.

As a Herbivore even I know that is a different kind of mince.
(please god, let it not be slang for something)

 

[bobsgirl]

Mmmm.....mince pie.

Blech.

 

[midwestyankee]

As a Herbivore even I know that is a different kind of mince.
(please god, let it not be slang for something)

And what sort of mince did you mean? I meant the type that goes into traditional holiday pies here. It's mostly fruits and sauce now though at one time the recipes did contain meat.

 

[exhi2]

Since my chili contains no meat, beans are a necessity in order to have protein in the meal. When combined with grains, legumes provide a complete protein that is healthier than the protein you get from eating meat.

We also make chili sans (minor ethical statement to follow) dead animals, so beans are a must. Had our homemade chili at our wedding.
But, I accidently hit the wrong button in the poll.
Also, lasanga should have lentils in it. Good stuff.

 

[Verbiwhore]

Oops sorry me and my dirty mind, gets misty eyed.......
Mmmm pie.

 

[bobsgirl]

Oops sorry me and my dirty mind, gets misty eyed.......
Mmmm pie.

Well, you were right to be wary. Yank has led many a sweet young thing down the road to perdition.

 

[Sarojaede]

Also, lasanga should have lentils in it. Good stuff.

Sorry, but the Italian in me is just screaming at that. Lentils in lasagna.../puke

 

[silverwhisper]

lentils in general make me puke, frankly. they're the only bean i absolutely abhor. i don't care what alton brown says about 'em.

ed

 

[Sarojaede]

I, occassionally, like a good lentil burger, but black bean burgers are far better, IMHO. But lentils in lasagna is just a sin against something. My Italian ancestors would roll over in their graves.

 

[midwestyankee]

I, occassionally, like a good lentil burger, but black bean burgers are far better, IMHO. But lentils in lasagna is just a sin against something. My Italian ancestors would roll over in their graves.

Actually, lentils have a well-honored place in some Italian regional cuisines.

 

[Sarojaede]

Actually, lentils have a well-honored place in some Italian regional cuisines.

Not for my ancestors, and NOT in lasagna.

[waves five-generation family recipe for lasagna under yanks' nose]

See....not one single lentil.

 

[midwestyankee]

Not for my ancestors, and NOT in lasagna.

[waves five-generation family recipe for lasagna under yanks' nose]

See....not one single lentil.

I didn't claim that it was true of your ancestors. We both know how deeply fragmented the Italian peninsula has always been, and the distinctions between regional cuisines have persisted for centuries along the same political lines.

Example: Filetto di manzo al Barolo, tartufo e lenticchie

 

[Sarojaede]

I didn't claim that it was true of your ancestors. We both know how deeply fragmented the Italian peninsula has always been, and the distinctions between regional cuisines have persisted for centuries along the same political lines.

Example: Filetto di manzo al Barolo, tartufo e lenticchie

[pokes Yank in the ribs with a spork]

I know you weren't claiming it true for my ancestors. Just as I didn't say that it was true for all Italian cooking.

 

[Verbiwhore]

Well, you were right to be wary. Yank has led many a sweet young thing down the road to perdition.

I love you Bobsgirl.
Puts on a stout pair of boots and looks expectantly at Midwestyankee.
(hoping he's packed a picnic for the journey)

 

[midwestyankee]

[pokes Yank in the ribs with a spork]

I know you weren't claiming it true for my ancestors. Just as I didn't say that it was true for all Italian cooking.

Ahem:

But lentils in lasagna is just a sin against something.

As lasagne is one of those signatory dishes, taken generally to be emblematic of the national cuisine....I suggest that you most certainly did.

 

[Sarojaede]

Ahem:



As lasagne is one of those signatory dishes, taken generally to be emblematic of the national cuisine....I suggest that you most certainly did.

I most certainly did NOT as the very next sentence clearly indicates I was speaking of my particular heritage not all of Italy.

But lentils in lasagna is just a sin against something. My Italian ancestors would roll over in their graves.

Don't make me have to OED smack you.

 

[Eilan]

Ohio votes for beans.

I don't think I've ever had chili that didn't have beans in it.

I made a vegetarian chili for my book groupies last winter and one member was outraged because there was corn in it. But, hey, there's gotta be something in there if there's no meat. (Okay, that sounds kinda bad, doesn't it?)