Silly me. I entered a chili cookoff, which takes place tomorrow. So I spent much of today preparing dried chilis, roasting fresh peppers, grinding meat ... stirring, simmering, stirring ... cooking three different kinds of beans, testing-tasting-adjusting ... stirring, simmering, stirring. Yeah, that sums up my day.
We had chili for dinner. I think it's pretty good. I don't know if it's a prizewinning chili, but we'll see.
And I made a LOT of chili. I'm supposed to bring two gallons of the stuff. I think I got carried away.
So now the vat of chili has been tranferred to containers, and it's all in the fridge. Tomorrow, I do a reheat, a last-minute adjustment of spice and heat, and then get it over to the contest site in the late afternoon.
Then just hang out and eat everyone else's chili.
