An interesting chili experience. Our neighbor invited us over for .... "Texas chili" using a recipe he got from the NY Times. You can see where this is going. He said he had 2 pounds of ground turkey in the freeze which he bought for his dog, who passed away recently, so he made "chili" with it. He told us the recipe called for cocoa powder and numerous spices, and of course it had two kinds of beans, a lot of them. The ground turkey was tough and tasteless. The sauce was meh. There were far too many beans even for those who like beans in chili soup. The wife raved about it fortunately.
Our neighbor is a nice enough fellow and he had opened two bottles of semidecent quaffable cab. He used to live part time in Manhattan and is like a new yorker though he was born in Alabama. Anyway, I'm thinking I need to make my style of chili to get that taste out of my brain.
