Wood stove chili

Just getting the onions going, will hopefully be ready by supper time...

 

I like that you're using your CI pot.
Where's the beef? Onions should be sauteed about now.

 

Onions....

 

Beef into the party....

 

Sauce will be canned fire roasted maters from the garden, we can them whole with the skin on.

The immersion blender makes quick work of removing the skins.

 

Everything else but the beans into the party... (Fresh ground cumin and coriander, chili powder, bay leaves, paprika, and just a hint of cocoa powder)

Now to process a load of scraps I picked up in town...(this score hopefully leads to a bunch of white oak cut offs!!!!!)

 

Wheres the beef!! I remember that old lady on the TV commercials.

 

Can't go wrong with that, a true scrounger!

 

Loaded the house and got the pallets cut up...

Now to get the cornbread done. I soaked the cornmeal overnight in buttermilk.... Then added some sweet corn from this summer...

Getting the pan warmed up. (The firebrick never leave the oven.)


Waiting for it to cool off.....

 

Oh heck no......I wouldn't be.

 

Was worth the wait, cornbread slid right out of the pan with just a hint of crispy. Best cornbread I ever made.