Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Stone Soup... or stone chili

Yesterday I made something that looks very much like the above picture with a partial recipe. I didn't have over half of what the recipe called for, so I got a little creative with my refrigerator.  The end result incuded:

White beans
Corn
A pork chop (in leu of chicken)
Salsa (in leu of diced tomatoes, green chilis, green pepper, and onion)
Barbecue sauce
brown mustard
honey  (all three of the above were part of the marinade for the pork, whose drippings supplied me with something to replace "a can of chicken broth."  Seriously, who buys chicken broth?)
Pineapple juice
cumin
salt
lemon pepper
cilantro

(The only things I had from the original recipie was a can of corn, white beans, and cumin.  All other ingredients were creative substitutions or stuff I thought would make it taste better.)

Yup. Sounds like it should have tasted nasty, doesn't it?  But in true Stone Soup fashion, what we had ended up tasting AWESOME!!!! My first successful chili, and it was done without a proper recipe!
I just hope I can recreate it some day.

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