Saturday, May 20, 2006

Bert Greene's Peppered Chili


Yield: 6 Servings

7 Tbsp butter
2 garlic cloves, med, fine chop
4 onions, finely chopped
1 bell pepper(s)
1 1/4 lb beef round, hamburger grind
1 Tbsp oil, vegetable
1 1/2 lb beef shoulder, 2x1/2 strips
3 Tbsp red chile, mild, ground
3 tomatoes, lg, chopped
1 tsp sugar
1 bay leaves
4 basil leaves, fresh, chopped
1 thyme, dried
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp allspice
2 Tbsp chile caribe
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp hot pepper sauce, liquid
6 serrano chiles, frsh, fin chop
1/2 cup red wine, dry
3/4 cup beef broth
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
3 cup kidney beans, cooked, drained

1. Melt 3 tablespoons of the butter in a large heavy skillet over
medium heat. Add half the garlic, half the onions, and all the green
pepper and cook for 5 minutes. 2. Make a large well in the center of
the vegetables and place the ground beef in the center. Raise the
heat and cook, stirring and scraping the skillet with a metal
spatula. Gradually stir in the surrounding vegetables and cook until
the meat is evenly browned. Transfer this mixture to a Dutch oven.
3. Heat the vegetable oil and 1 tablespoon of the butter in the
skillet. Saute the beef shoulder, a few strips at a time, over high
heat until it is well browned. Transfer the strips to a plate as they
are done. Lower the heat, then wipe out the skillet with paper
toweling. Return beef strips to the skillet. Stir in the ground chile
and cook 3 minutes over low heat. Transfer to the Dutch oven. 4.
Melt the remaining butter in the skillet over medium heat. Add the
remaining onions and garlic and cook for 3 minutes. Stir in the
tomatoes, sugar, and bay leaf and cook for 10 minutes. Transfer the
mixture to the Dutch oven. 5. Stir all the remaining ingredients
except the beans into the Dutch oven. Bake, covered, in a 300' oven
for 3 hours. 6. Stir in the beans; bake 1/2 hour longer.


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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Restaurant reviews (Contra Costa Times)


Restaurant reviews (Contra Costa Times)
The following are edited versions of full-length restaurant reviews that have run within the past year in the Times. Restaurants have been reviewed by Times writers John Birdsall and Nicholas Boer. The date the original review ran and its fork rating at that time is in parentheses. In April, we added star ratings to indicate service and ambience.

PostScripts: Notes from the food world (The Cincinnati Post)
The organic movement's rolling right into summer. Edward & Sons Trading Co., based in Carpinteria, Calif., is offering a line of vegan and organic ice cream cones and sugar cones. These are surely the philosophical complement to low-fat ice cream, frozen yogurt, maybe even LaLoo's Goat Milk ice cream.

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Monday, May 15, 2006

HEB and ConAgra to Celebrate Mother's Day Mexican-style with Cooking Camps (Progressive Grocer)


HEB and ConAgra to Celebrate Mother's Day Mexican-style with Cooking Camps (Progressive Grocer)
MAY 11, 2006 -- SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- H.E. Butt Grocery Co. and ConAgra Foods, Inc. are teaming up to help celebrate Mother's Day this weekend with free cooking camps.

BACK TO THE BOOTH (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The food at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival tastes so good for many reasons, reasons related not just to taste buds but also to the brain and heart.

Editor needs a ribbing about barbecues (Orange Leader)
By Mike Pound THE JOPLIN GLOBE (JOPLIN, Mo.) So the other day, I was trying to decide whether to renew my subscription to Food and Wine when the magazine s editor made my decision for me.

Some try ultra-fat diet to combat medical conditions (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul)
For a month that tested her determination, Marilyn Deaton dined on little but fat. The recipes she prepared included eggs baked with gobs

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Buffalo Hump Chili


Yield: 1 Servings

3 lb bison, Ground
3 poblano peppers, fresh
2 md onions
30 oz rotel tomatoes, diced (3 can
4 1/2 Tbsp New Mexico chile powder
1 1/2 tsp cumin, Ground
1 1/2 tsp paprika
3 cl garlic
1 fresh lime

Brown the bison meat (add a little oil and break it up as you brown it.) Add finely chopped onions and garlic. When onions are clear, add tomatoes and spices. Add water to barely cover, and simmer until meat is tender. Add chopped poblanos for last 20 minutes of simmer, and stir in lime juice before serving.

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