No rocks this time around.....

In this entry, poltr1 dons a grey Nehru jacket, a bald cap, and goes trick-or-treating as....Dr. Evil! [/me brings his right pinky finger up to his lips.]

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
poltr1 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Dr. Evil.
autographedcat gives you 13 blue cinnamon-flavoured nuggets.
dagonell gives you 6 blue grapefruit-flavoured jelly beans.
doeadear tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
filker0 tricks you! You lose 5 pieces of candy!
folkmew gives you 18 tan root beer-flavoured gummy worms.
gleepy tricks you! You get a pencil.
jinny_e gives you 11 teal lemon-flavoured hard candies.
katyhh gives you 6 purple licorice-flavoured gumdrops.
maedbh7 gives you 14 orange apple-flavoured hard candies.
ohiblather gives you 17 light orange peach-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
poltr1 ends up with 79 pieces of candy, and a pencil.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Ooh....what a haul.....somebody pass the insulin, please.......

Cayenne is GOOD for you!

Today we had a chili cook-off at work. Twelve people brought in crockpots of their best chili. (A few of the guys "cheated" and had their wives make the chili for them. One of he women "cheated" too and had her husband make the chili.) We didn't have any prizes for best chili, but I though the best was a batch called "Gobbler Fire".

My entry was a "guess the meat" chili -- only a few brave souls were willing to try it. As always, my chili batches are subtitled "MSDS Sheet Available Upon Request". Once the first person guessed correctly, I told people what it was: buffalo (aka "bison"). (As if "my home town" wasn't big enough of a hint.) It's leaner, and supposedly more healthy than beef.

So, what was in this batch?

• 1 lb. ground buffalo meat
  
• Carroll Shelby's Original Texas Chili Kit (my favorite chili mix!)
  
• 1 8 oz. can of tomato sauce
  
• 2 cups filtered water
  
• 1 chopped red bell pepper
  
• 1 chopped yellow bell pepper
  
• App. 1 cup of chopped sweet onion
  
• App. 2 cloves of garlic
  
• Cayenne pepper (in addition to what came with the kit)
  
• Asian chili paste with garlic
  

The meat was browned in a skillet before I tossed it -- and everything else -- into a crock pot, where it cooked on low heat for 2 hours.

It's been too long since I last made chili. I should make it more often. The problem is, my wife likes it mild and I like mine spicy. She doesn't like cut-up veggies in her chili; I do. So I'll just make it mild and add my own spice. Or I'll make two batches.