Nothing beats a good old chicken sandwich…
As I sat here waiting for some code to finish running, I started thinking about how good my lunch is going to be, and yet, how simple it is... (in revision I realized how my tenses in this sentence are all over the place)
First a side comment about brown bagging it. Tara and I went to visit my aunt recently and she mentioned how all these girls where she works are always complaining about how they don't have money and all this, yet they go out to eat everyday. Her direct quote was "HAVEN'T YA HEARD OF BROWN BAGGIN' IT?"
So that has been a true inspiration to me. Only eat lunch out once a week and the Airliner has half-off Tuesdays so you can get a large deep dish pizza for like 10 bucks. It's enough for four people. I went yesterday and we had so much left over that I took it down to the ped-mall and gave it to some guy that held a sign saying "anything helps." The thing that pissed me off though was that the guy was pulling out a pack of beef jerky from his bag. I guess deep dish pizza is better than jerky but still, he at least had enough money to buy jerky. That stuff is expensive!
Anyways, long story short, the trick to brown bagging is preparation. You have to think in advance and try to prep some of the stuff for later. Monday I bought about four chicken breasts and cooked them on the George Foreman grill. So this morning I heated up a breast, slathered some mayo on some bread, and I'm pretty sure this is going to be one excellent sandwich.
Great White North Garlic Chili
Here is the first recipe I have made up on my own...
GREAT WHITE NORTH GARLIC CHILI
Ingredients
- 1-2 lbs hamburger
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp group black pepper
- pinch red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp ground red pepper
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 Tbsp chili powder
- 2 cans diced tomatoes with peppers and stuff (prefer hot!)
- 2 cans chili hot beans
- 1 can northern white beans (this is what makes the title!)
Instructions
- Cook the hamburger and chop up the garlic and add it to the hamburger whenever.
- In a crock-pot put in the cans of tomatoes and beans. You can drain the tomatoes or not, but don't drain the beans, just dump them in. Save the chili hot beans cans for later.
- When almost all the hamburger is browned, add the spices and cook for a while til the kitchen smells good.
- Put the cooked hamburger and spices into the crock-pot, grease and all. Recipes that tell you to drain the grease are foolish (not based on fact).
- If it's not soupy enough, rinse the chili hot bean cans with a bit of water and dump it in for more juice.
Thanks to Tara for accidentally buying white northern beans instead of garbanzo beans. Without your purchase this chili would have been less beanie, less tasty, and less white.