chili recipes

A beautiful fall day calls for a beautiful fall meal. Enter: pumpkin black bean chili. Oh lordy, this is good! I haven’t cooked or blogged in quite a while. I’ve [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte...

It happened today. There was a chill in the air, a breeze, and the heat wave finally broke. Temperatures were in the 90's yesterday but today will fall to the 80's. Autumn is finally here! I’ve been so longing for this moment, to enjoy all of those w...

Prep time: 35 minutes Cook time: 45 minutes Serves 4 One important tip: Be sure to leave a generous amount of flesh at the bottom of the onions, otherwise they can fall apart during handling. INGREDIENTS 4...

Camper's favorite chili Serves 4 INGREDIENTS 1 1/4 cups canned pinto beans 2 cups tomato sauce (homemade or commercial) 12 ounces dried pasta (such as elbow macaroni) 3 whole jalapeño peppers, seeded and minced ...

I am a self-confessed 'yard clipping diver' (that's dumpster diving for the blurbs). California is such the land of plenty that people put perfectly good fruits and vegetables growing on their trees and in their gardens in their yard piles. I happily f...

I'll admit sometimes dating someone with kidlets can be a bit trying...instead of cocktails with friends or a romantic getaway to the City, weekends can be full of meltdowns, pouting and attitude. But more often then not, they'...

Chili is one of those recipes that I never seem to make the same way twice.  Sometimes I want a deeply rich and exotic chili, a green chili, or a really basic chili.  I stumbled upon this recipe from Ali of Gimme Some Oven, and I now have my go-to recipe for a really...

I think we can all agree, there's just nothing like Mom's home cookin'.  It just tastes better, doesn't it?  In a veiled attempt to get more home cooked meals (okay, I admit, it's a pretty thin veil, lol) I've asked my Mom to subm...

Here's a chili that's sure to warm you up from the inside out! Plus, it's easy to let it cook all day when you use a crock pot - filling the house with the smells of dinner. If you don't have a crock pot, it still comes together easily on the stov...

I've known about tempeh for some time, wanted to try it, but never had enough urge to actually do it. Now that I'm doing my vegetarian May, I figured this was finally the time. I wanted to see if some of these fake meat products could be put into a cro...