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Jim Boren's "Red Ink Chili"

Recipe Link: http://www.jimboren.com/chili.html

List of Ingredients




Jim Boren's "Red Ink Chili"

Dedicated to the taxpayers who pay the price for red ink, hocus pocus tax cuts for the rich, and a massive program of corporate welfare, Jim Boren's Red Ink Chili is for those who are accustomed to the fires of anger and frustration.

People who feel burned out by the constant burden of a growing public debt and who may want to reduce the fiscal fires in the belly of the body politic can do so by moderating the natural heat of good chili. This can be done by adulterating it with beans, grated cheese, or crumbled crackers or cornbread. Such adulterating ingredients should NEVER be cooked with the chili but should be served as side dishes.
It is the Boren view that chili with beans is not chili, but it is what the phrase clearly indicates: chili...with beans! (It is quite acceptable for bean lovers to add beans at the time of serving, but beans cooked with chili alters the flavor of the chili.)

The Ingredients

4 lbs. lean beef or venison, cut in 1/2
in. cubes or ground with 1/2 in.
plate
30 oz. can tomato sauce
14 oz. can DelMonte Mexican
Recipe stewed tomatoes
16 oz. water
10 Tbs. chili powder
3 Tbs. cayenne pepper
3 Tbs. cumin
2 tsp. ground oregano
1 tsp. black pepper
3 jalapeno peppers, finely chopped
3 medium onions, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, pressed
1 Tbs. sorghum or molasses
2 Tbs. corn meal






Recipe



Vital Procedures
Measure all dry spices into a container. Lightly coat the dutch oven or pot with corn oil. Heat the pot. Spoon the garlic around the hot pot for a minute or two; then add the finely chopped onions and chopped jalapenos. When the onions are as transparent as a politician's promises, add the meat. Stir and sear the meat until the pink is converted to a light bureaucratic gray.

Add the tomato sauce, the water, and the dry spices. Stir to mix well; bring to a boil; cover and reduce the bubblistics to a joyful simmer. Simmer for two hours, but give an occasional swirl of the spoon to let the developing chili know you really care. A happy marriage requires frequent expressions of tender care and love; good chili requires the same!

After two hours, add one Tbs. of sorghum (or molasses); then stir cautiously and affectionately until the sorghum is an integral part of the happy marriage. Though some fine chili cooks establish a meaningful relationship by simply dumping the ingredients into a pot, I prefer to mumble a matrimonial incantation...a kind of ceremonial blessing.

Pepper, spices, chopped-up meat...
Bubble, blend and share your heat.
May your flavor and your fire
Give us zest and great desire.
Pepper, spices, chopped-up meat...
Bubble, blend, and share your heat.
Chili stir, and chili stroke;
May all cares go up in smoke.
Following the final incantation, lightly sprinkle the cornmeal over the vibrant surface of the chili...slowly massaging the cornmeal into the chili with tender, spoonful strokes. In three or four minutes, Jim Boren's Red Ink Chili will be ready for consumption.

"Chili has long been known to give zest for life to both young and old. For the young, chili gives an awakening surge of driving dynamism, and it enriches the discoveries of life. For the middle-aged, chili carries a warm message of romantic love, and it inspires an artistry of quality embrace. For the old, chili provides a sustaining glow of competent elation. A good bowl of chili warms the soul, excites the body, and extends the joys of sunrise into the sunset of life."
-Jim Boren, Press Conference, Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C. Sept. 17, 1984