Don’s famous chili

This may be the last cold weekend we get till next fall, and since it is Super Bowl weekend, we thought we’d start it off with Don’s Chili. This is a home-made recipe based off of years of horsing around. To REALLY make it great, toss in some diced chipotle peppers and it’s adobo sauce. We usually make a small pot on the side of that patch, since Don’s the only one who can eat it. Ingredients 2 TB of olive oil 1 Sweet onion, chopped. We like big onion pieces for the flavor. 2 Heaping TB of minced garlic (we buy ours by the big jar) 1 LB Ground chicken 1 tsp Fresh ground pepper, we use the McCormick peppercorn medley 2 1LB cans of crushed tomatoes 3 14oz cans of roasted, diced tomatoes 2 14oz cans of black beans 2 TB of chili powder 1 tsp...

End of the year BBQ Sauce

For almost ten years Don has cooked up a batch of home-made BBQ sauce on the last school day of the year. The first year was the spring of 1999, we had moved to a new house in Georgia in the fall of 1998, and Don wanted to start making some new traditions of our own. Thus, the “end of the year BBQ sauce” tradition began. Tomorrow is the last day of school, and since he’ll be busy making the sauce in the afternoon, we’ll post the recipe for anyone who wants to join in and make their own. It’s a vinegar-based sauce that has a real nice peppery kick to it. We smoked a chicken, chops and a roast last weekend, all part of the plan. Tomorrow night we’ll enjoy some of it with the sauce. One of our favorite traditions, however, is to...