I may enter a chili contest this weekend.

[BikeWriter]

If I do, I will probably cook my Cajun Chili as a novelty entry. Cajun Chili, you ask? Yep, I call this Cajun Chili or Jambalaya with a twist. Here's the recipe from Demopedia. Try it sometime.


Ingredients:

2 loaves of french bread for skillet fried garlic bread
3 yellow Onions chopped fine
4-5 cloves garlic
4 Tbsp. butter or oleo
4-5 large lemons
8-10 Roma tomatos or one large can
1 Small can tomato paste
2 green bell peppers or equivalant amount of Anaheim green chilis chopped fine
Several stalks of celery, chopped fine
3 to 4 cups of rice cooked
2 lbs. of Louisana style andoullie sausage or smoked sausage
2 lbs of cleaned shrimp
1 pound Smoked Ham and/or cooked chicken
1 pound of blue crab claw meat or 6-8 crabs cleaned and halved
2 cans of chicken stock
Add water as needed to the mixture in the latter stages. Seasoned Salt, Black Pepper, chili powder, celery seeds, Chop your andoullie or smoked sausage and the smoked ham into cubes.

Saute the onions, celery, garlic, and peppers in a large iron pot with the oleo until clarifying. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, and chicken stock. Here's where this Jambalaya takes a twist from the average recipe. Add half a handful or so of of chili powder; if you can't bear to just pour it out in your hand add two or three heaping tablespoons. You may want to add a little more later. Trust me! Simmer this over a medium flame for about 30 minutes while stirring often. Add your chopped sausage and ham and/or chicken to the pot and squeeze a couple of the lemons. Pour several tbsp. of the juice into the tomato mixture and stir and taste. Now you see why we added the lemons! Slice a couple of more of the lemons, deseed them, and add them (with peel) to the pot. Simmer this for about 30 minutes more then add your shrimp, and crab meat. Stir this often until the shrimp are done. Pour a couple of steaming ladles of this over your cooked rice, grab some slices of garlic bread and dig in! I made six gallons of this at a gathering a few months back, and everyone loved it!
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/DU_Recipes:Main_Dishes:Seafood

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Lemons!

Now that Jambachili recipe that looks very interesting.

[BikeWriter]

4. Thank you, Pard. I use a simplified version of this sometimes...

with just the trinity (onions, bell peppers, and celery), chicken thighs, chili powder, and lemons. It's not as good as the complete recipe, but it's very quick and easy to make. ;-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear BikeWriter!

OK, now you've gone and done it......

You're making me hungry!

I haven't had my breakfast just yet........*drool*

:hi:

[BikeWriter]

5. Oh, I'm sorry, Peggy! If you could only smell this cooking... Mmm!

:-)

[In_The_Wind]

3. I bet you'll win!

[BikeWriter]

6. Thank you, Dear. The last time I made this a Friend's wife...

ate three 20 oz. bowls full! She's a petite woman, too. She said she was putting it in her hollow leg. ;-)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Just stay away from a judge called Frank. -nt

[BikeWriter]

8. Yep, I've heard about Frank, the Chili Judge! Here's Frank:

TALES OF AN INEXPERIENCED CHILI TASTER

Notes From An Inexperienced Chili Tester Named FRANK, who was visiting Texas from the East Coast: "Recently, I was honored to be selected as a judge at a chili cook-off. The original person called in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at the judge's table asking directions to the beer wagon, when the call came. I was assured by the other two judges (Native Texans) that the chili wouldn't be all that spicy, and besides, they told me I could have free beer during the tasting, so I accepted."

Here are the scorecards from the event:
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CHILI # 1 MIKE'S MANIAC MOBSTER MONSTER CHILI

JUDGE ONE: A little too heavy on tomato. Amusing kick.

JUDGE TWO: Nice, smooth tomato flavor. Very mild.

FRANK: Holy shit, what the hell is this stuff? You could remove dried paint from your driveway. Took me two beers to put the flames out. I hope that's the worst one. These Texans are crazy.
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CHILI # 2 ARTHUR'S AFTERBURNER CHILI

JUDGE ONE: Smokey, with a hint of pork. Slight Jalapeno tang.

JUDGE TWO: Exciting BBQ flavor, needs more peppers to be taken seriously.

FRANK: Keep this out of the reach of children I'm not sure what I am supposed to taste besides pain. I had to wave off two people who wanted to give me the Heimlich maneuver. They had to rush in more beer when they saw the look on my face.
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CHILI # 3 FRED'S FAMOUS BURN DOWN THE BARN CHILI

JUDGE ONE: Excellent firehouse chili! Great kick. Needs more beans.

JUDGE TWO: A beanless chili, a bit salty, good use of peppers.

FRANK: Call the EPA, I've located a uranium spill. My nose feels like I have been snorting Drano. Everyone knows the routine by now get me more beer before I ignite. Barmaid pounded me on the back; now my backbone is in the front part of my chest. I'm getting shit-faced from all the beer.
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CHILI # 4 BUBBA'S BLACK MAGIC

JUDGE ONE: Black bean chili with almost no spice. Disappointing.

JUDGE TWO: Hint of lime in the black beans. Good side dish for fish or other mild foods, not much of a chili.

FRANK: I felt something scraping across my tongue, but was unable to taste it, is it possible to burnout taste buds? Sally, the barmaid, was standing behind me with fresh refills; that 300 lb. bitch is starting to look HOT just like this nuclear waste I'm eating. Is chili an aphrodisiac?
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CHILI # 5 LINDA'S LEGAL LIP REMOVER

JUDGE ONE: Meaty, strong chili. Cayenne peppers freshly ground, adding considerable kick. Very Impressive.

JUDGE TWO: Chili using shredded beef, could use more tomato. Must admit the cayenne peppers make a strong statement.

FRANK: My ears are ringing, sweat is pouring off my forehead and I can no longer focus my eyes. I farted and four people behind me needed paramedics. The contestant seemed offended when I told her that her chili had given me brain damage, Sally saved my tongue from bleeding by pouring beer directly on it from a pitcher. I wonder if I'm burning my lips off? It really pisses me off that the other judges asked me to stop screaming. Screw those rednecks!
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CHILI # 6 VERA'S VERY VEGETARIAN VARIETY

JUDGE ONE: Thin yet bold vegetarian variety chili. Good balance of spice and peppers.

JUDGE TWO: The best yet. Aggressive use of peppers, onions, and garlic. Superb.

FRANK: My intestines are now a straight pipe filled with gaseous, sulfuric flames. I shit myself when I farted and I'm worried it will eat through the chair. No one seems inclined to stand behind me except Sally. Can't feel my lips anymore. I need to wipe my ass with a snow cone!
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CHILI # 7 SUSAN'S SCREAMING SENSATION CHILI

JUDGE ONE: A mediocre chili with too much reliance on canned peppers.

JUDGE TWO: Ho Hum, tastes as if the chef literally threw in a can of chili peppers at the last moment. I should take note that I am worried about Judge Number 3, He appears to be in a bit of distress as he is cursing uncontrollably.

FRANK: You could put a grenade in my mouth, pull the pin, and I wouldn't feel a damn thing. I've lost sight in one eye, and the world sounds like it is made of rushing water. My shirt is covered with chili, which slid unnoticed out of my mouth. My pants are full of lava-like shit to match my damn shirt. At least during the autopsy they'll know what killed me. I've decided to stop breathing, it's too painful. Screw it, I'm not getting any oxygen anyway. If I need air, I'll just suck it in through the 4-inch hole in my stomach.

[atommom]

9. Sounds like Frank will probably be out of commission soon!

:rofl:

Your Cajun chili sounds delicious. Suddenly I'm starving. :P

[BikeWriter]

10. Thank you, Ma'am. It is a delicious combination of flavors.

[atommom]

18. BTW, how much does this recipe make?

[trof]

11. Sounds delicious, but...um...

it really ain't chili.

It sounds good enough that I'll damn well try it.
Next time miz t. makes jambamlaya I'll sneak in a handful of chili powder and then run like hell.
;-)

Herewith, for you're reading pleasure:

History of Chili

From the time the second person on earth mixed some chile peppers with meat and cooked them, the great chili debate was on; more of a war, in fact. The desire to brew up the best bowl of chili in the world is exactly that old.

Perhaps it is the effect of Capisicum spices upon man's mind; for, in the immortal words of Joe DeFrates, the only man ever to win the National and the World Chili Championships, "Chili powder makes you crazy." That may say it all. To keep things straight, chile refers to the pepper pod, and chili to the concoction. The e and the i of it all.

The great debate, it seems, is not limited to whose chili is best. Even more heated is the argument over where the first bowl was made; and by whom. Estimates range from "somewhere west of Laramie," in the early nineteenth century - being a product of a Texas trail drive - to a grisly tale of enraged Aztecs, who cut up invading Spanish conquistadors, seasoned chunks of them with a passel of chile peppers, and ate them.

Never has there been anything mild about chili.
More: http://www.chilicookoff.com/FactsFun/..%5CHistory%5CHistory_of_Chili.asp

[BikeWriter]

13. That's why I call it Cajun Chili. The contest is free style. ;-)

[texas1928]

12. I've got sympathetic gas just from reading that recipe.

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Sorry

:blush:

[BikeWriter]

14. ROFLMFBO! You toot!

[SmileyBoy]

15. AND NO BEANS!!!!!

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Can you mail some of it over to me??:D

[BikeWriter]

16. Nope, not one damned bean! Uh, might could fax it? ;-)

[SmileyBoy]

17. Go ahead, fax it!!

:7