Cincinnati Chili

that sounds perfect!





me too! I don't get the chili w/o beans. Why not just eat a sloppy joe. Chili in my mind has always been chili if it has beans.

With that said, I hate kidney beans, or any weird bean in my chili. (doesn't mean I think kidney beans do not belong in chili). I "prefer" just chili beans. Mom always thought it wasn't healthy enough w/o the nasty beans in it too.

I love beans of all kinds. I don't think I ever ate a bean that I didn't like. I also use kidney beans when I make a batch of chili. Yummy :-D

One thing I can't stand is white chili. Just the thought of it, yech.

I do have a great recipe for great northern beans that calls for salt pork, catsup, and brown sugar. I'll try to post it later.

I've never heard of white chili.

I've got a great baked beans recipe myself and it's got salt pork, brown sugar and maple syrup :-D

probably because it's gross and no one likes it in their chili!!!

i think people do it for a "healthier choice."

White chili isn't necessarily healthier, but it is made with chicken and white beans. I mean, once you put enough pork fat in it to make it taste good, it kind of loses that healthy aspect.

Here's the baked bean recipe Imentioned before, "Michigan Bean Bake".

1 64 oz jar great northern beans (fully cooked)
1 1/2 pounds of lean pork, cut into 1" cubes
1 14 oz bottle ketchup
3 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup of onion, chopped

Toss everything in a slow cooker and cook overnight or at least 5-6 hours.

Montana, seeing how we come from the same neck of the woods originally, do you remember yellow eye beans? That's what my parents always used for New England baked beans. When I first moved to Chicago my mother would send me care packages of stuff I couldn't get here. She always included a pound of yellow eye beans.

JB
I'm sorry it took me so long to respond. I missed your post.
Nope, can't say I've ever heard of yellow eye beans, but that could be because I grew up in Massachusetts.

Are they yellow?