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shadowkatHad a hunk of ground chicken that I had to do something with - because it could not sit in my fridge another day. So what do you do with gluten-free free range, organic, ground chicken? Make chili of course. Only one problem, can't remember how to make it or what is in it - because I haven't made chili in five to ten years. So, this required a little research. (ie. Google). After a bit of searching (five-ten minutes worth - gotta love the internet), I found the perfect recipe - "Ground Chicken Chili" which for some reason I can't re-find now. But I printed it off - so here's the recipe below:
Ground Chicken Chili
1 lb (pound) Ground Chicken (or as much as you want)
2 cups pinto beans, fully cooked or 1 14 oz can (I bought a can)
1 medium onion, diced (I got creative and used two scallions, and a red onion)
3 cloves of garlic minced (I suck at this - but used three cloves, possibly four)
1 28 oz can of tomatoes, diced or whole crushed by hand ( I could only find diced tomatoes with basil and garlic, but figured it did not matter - as long as that was all that was in there)
1 6oz can of tomato sauce ( I used 8 oz and went with gluten free - yes, tomato sauce can have glutens added, you have to be careful - people are idiots. Red Pack is a safe brand - it states "Gluten Free" on the back of the package - this means no cross-contamination or risk of it.)
1 cup of water (I used the can)
1 1/2 Tb. Chilli Powder (you can't buy the ready made packets if you are celiac, although I couldn't find it anyhow - none in the grocery store, but the packets would make me ill. So you get the real stuff - chili powder - from the spice section. I treated this as a chemistry experiment and put in as much as I wanted.)
1 1/2 tea spoon Cumin (also put in as much as I wanted - and got Indian Cumin - which is an important ingredient, it's not chili without this)
1 T Onion Powder (I ignored this ingredient - figured I had enough onions.)
Salt and pepper to taste
Cayenne pepper to taste
Cilantro for garnish (not a fan of cilantro - so used chives and grated cheddar and fresh onion instead.)
Directions
1. Brown Ground Chicken in large pot over a medium heat until meat is almost completely cooked, just small amount of pink should be left. Crumble meat as it cooks (easier said than done).
2. Add onion and minced garlic to meat, cooking until meat is done and onions begin to soften and become translucent.
3. Season meat mixture with salt and pepper and a pinch of chili powder.
4. Add remaining ingredients except pinto beans to the pot and cover and lower heat to low.
5. Simmer for about 25 minutes, tasting every so often and adjusting seasoning as needed. Add additional water if chili becomes too thick.
6. Add beans to pot and simmer 10 minutes more.
7. Serve with low fat cheese and sour cream (I don't do sour cream because it's hard to find gluten-free brands - yes it has glutens added to it to ) Garnish with Cilantro and chopped onions if desired. (I used chives). This chili is even better the next day! (we shall see - because it does make enough for about three to four helpings, particularly if you are cursed with a small tummy like I am. )
Makes about 10 1-cup servings. (Yep, about that, maybe less.)
I didn't make as much as the recipe called for...and my measurements were slightly off - I seldom follow recipes exactly, I cook the same way I knit, by instinct. I just need a general idea and to know the ingredients and I'm all set. If I followed it exact - it would be boring.
Tried to take a picture of this, but I took a video instead. Stupid ipod touch device.
Watched the second episode of Revenge - it's getting even better, the characters are starting to get fleshed out along with the main theme - which appears to be money and how people deal with money. The frivolous and ostentatious spending of the rich Hamptonites, who treat money as if it literally grew on trees, and the struggle of the Tavern owner and his sons. How money paves the way for everything and often provides you with opportunities and choices that you wouldn't have otherwise. Enter Emily Thorn who is intent on taking down this rich people...threading her way amongst them, and manipulating them through their greed. It's cathartic fun, particularly if you live in an area in which you literally find yourself wedged between the world of the extravagantly wealthy and the homeless on a daily basis.
In the news recently they reported that in NYC the gap between rich and poor is the biggest in the nation, it's at almost 50%.
There is over 150,000 homeless in NYC. And it is getting worse. The unemployment rate is 9%. In my neighborhood - you walk five blocks and you see the poor. Walk five blocks opposite direction the wealthy. There's the couples with their nannies and their mini-vans or smart cars, their expensive bikes, and strollers, while people who are struggling to stay alive aren't that far away.
And right now as we speak, people have been Occupying Wall Street to protest a long list of woes at the top - the huge gap between rich and poor. (Their difficulty is they aren't sure who is to blame for their predicament and what should be changed? Will a millionaire's tax help? Or do we need more?) The fact that 50% of the US's Gross National Product is being shared by less than 5% of the population. People are furious. And it's been building for quite some time. We have a billionaire mayor who is creating a fortress, spending money right and left on parks, sitting in Times Square, but laying people off to cut costs. The wealthy souls in NYC from everyone in the middle class on down look a lot like Victoria Grayson, Conrad Grayson and Bill Harmon - scum that need to be taken down a few pegs.
In Revenge we have the young tech genuis who people laughed at, teaming up with the disenfranchised daughter of a upper middle class hedge fund specialist who was destroyed by his wealthier employers. ( I rather like Nolan...although I remain not all together certain what to make of him.) Basically it's the daughter of the guy that got dissed by the head of Enron or Lehman Brothers or Bank of America - taking aim at those guys in their crystal houses through the world of technology.
Broken down...Revenge is actually quite clever and its plot twisty. By far the best new drama to date, with the most potential. Not a trashy soap at all, which is surprising. Was more impressed by this week's episode than last, which bodes well.
And it helps that I am enjoying watching the rich financiers get taken for all their worth. Dancing the dance of Schaenfraud and all that.
Ground Chicken Chili
1 lb (pound) Ground Chicken (or as much as you want)
2 cups pinto beans, fully cooked or 1 14 oz can (I bought a can)
1 medium onion, diced (I got creative and used two scallions, and a red onion)
3 cloves of garlic minced (I suck at this - but used three cloves, possibly four)
1 28 oz can of tomatoes, diced or whole crushed by hand ( I could only find diced tomatoes with basil and garlic, but figured it did not matter - as long as that was all that was in there)
1 6oz can of tomato sauce ( I used 8 oz and went with gluten free - yes, tomato sauce can have glutens added, you have to be careful - people are idiots. Red Pack is a safe brand - it states "Gluten Free" on the back of the package - this means no cross-contamination or risk of it.)
1 cup of water (I used the can)
1 1/2 Tb. Chilli Powder (you can't buy the ready made packets if you are celiac, although I couldn't find it anyhow - none in the grocery store, but the packets would make me ill. So you get the real stuff - chili powder - from the spice section. I treated this as a chemistry experiment and put in as much as I wanted.)
1 1/2 tea spoon Cumin (also put in as much as I wanted - and got Indian Cumin - which is an important ingredient, it's not chili without this)
1 T Onion Powder (I ignored this ingredient - figured I had enough onions.)
Salt and pepper to taste
Cayenne pepper to taste
Cilantro for garnish (not a fan of cilantro - so used chives and grated cheddar and fresh onion instead.)
Directions
1. Brown Ground Chicken in large pot over a medium heat until meat is almost completely cooked, just small amount of pink should be left. Crumble meat as it cooks (easier said than done).
2. Add onion and minced garlic to meat, cooking until meat is done and onions begin to soften and become translucent.
3. Season meat mixture with salt and pepper and a pinch of chili powder.
4. Add remaining ingredients except pinto beans to the pot and cover and lower heat to low.
5. Simmer for about 25 minutes, tasting every so often and adjusting seasoning as needed. Add additional water if chili becomes too thick.
6. Add beans to pot and simmer 10 minutes more.
7. Serve with low fat cheese and sour cream (I don't do sour cream because it's hard to find gluten-free brands - yes it has glutens added to it to ) Garnish with Cilantro and chopped onions if desired. (I used chives). This chili is even better the next day! (we shall see - because it does make enough for about three to four helpings, particularly if you are cursed with a small tummy like I am. )
Makes about 10 1-cup servings. (Yep, about that, maybe less.)
I didn't make as much as the recipe called for...and my measurements were slightly off - I seldom follow recipes exactly, I cook the same way I knit, by instinct. I just need a general idea and to know the ingredients and I'm all set. If I followed it exact - it would be boring.
Tried to take a picture of this, but I took a video instead. Stupid ipod touch device.
Watched the second episode of Revenge - it's getting even better, the characters are starting to get fleshed out along with the main theme - which appears to be money and how people deal with money. The frivolous and ostentatious spending of the rich Hamptonites, who treat money as if it literally grew on trees, and the struggle of the Tavern owner and his sons. How money paves the way for everything and often provides you with opportunities and choices that you wouldn't have otherwise. Enter Emily Thorn who is intent on taking down this rich people...threading her way amongst them, and manipulating them through their greed. It's cathartic fun, particularly if you live in an area in which you literally find yourself wedged between the world of the extravagantly wealthy and the homeless on a daily basis.
In the news recently they reported that in NYC the gap between rich and poor is the biggest in the nation, it's at almost 50%.
There is over 150,000 homeless in NYC. And it is getting worse. The unemployment rate is 9%. In my neighborhood - you walk five blocks and you see the poor. Walk five blocks opposite direction the wealthy. There's the couples with their nannies and their mini-vans or smart cars, their expensive bikes, and strollers, while people who are struggling to stay alive aren't that far away.
And right now as we speak, people have been Occupying Wall Street to protest a long list of woes at the top - the huge gap between rich and poor. (Their difficulty is they aren't sure who is to blame for their predicament and what should be changed? Will a millionaire's tax help? Or do we need more?) The fact that 50% of the US's Gross National Product is being shared by less than 5% of the population. People are furious. And it's been building for quite some time. We have a billionaire mayor who is creating a fortress, spending money right and left on parks, sitting in Times Square, but laying people off to cut costs. The wealthy souls in NYC from everyone in the middle class on down look a lot like Victoria Grayson, Conrad Grayson and Bill Harmon - scum that need to be taken down a few pegs.
In Revenge we have the young tech genuis who people laughed at, teaming up with the disenfranchised daughter of a upper middle class hedge fund specialist who was destroyed by his wealthier employers. ( I rather like Nolan...although I remain not all together certain what to make of him.) Basically it's the daughter of the guy that got dissed by the head of Enron or Lehman Brothers or Bank of America - taking aim at those guys in their crystal houses through the world of technology.
Broken down...Revenge is actually quite clever and its plot twisty. By far the best new drama to date, with the most potential. Not a trashy soap at all, which is surprising. Was more impressed by this week's episode than last, which bodes well.
And it helps that I am enjoying watching the rich financiers get taken for all their worth. Dancing the dance of Schaenfraud and all that.
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Date: 2011-09-30 03:55 pm (UTC)One reservation: the teen love triangle. Meh.
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Date: 2011-09-30 04:30 pm (UTC)One reservation: the teen love triangle. Meh.
Yup. That's the one sub-plot that does not work for me. It's so cliche. Rich boy is involved with Rich girl, poor boy falls for rich girl, rich girl flirts with him, rich boy and his friends beat him up - drunken dad chases them away and has a heart attack. Sigh.
It's the only portion of the story that feels off writing wise...a bit clunky and unnecessary.
I know why it's there - emphasizing the rich man/poor man choices metaphor that is discussed by Emily and Victoria...but I don't think it quite works and is bit too heavy-handed and one-dimensional.
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Date: 2011-09-30 04:05 pm (UTC)It sounds like a great thing to make and then freeze the extra to eat later when you want something fast and easy.