tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82652091085013359992012-01-31T10:54:00.036-05:00The Life and Times of a Mommy, Wife, and Jewelry MakerTeri Landowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07108172202928572748noreply@blogger.comBlogger282125TheBeadedBranchhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265209108501335999.post-8301784951272119942012-01-31T10:54:00.000-05:002012-01-31T10:54:00.112-05:002012-01-31T10:54:00.112-05:00<b>Family Slow Cooker Chili</b><br /> <br /> 1 pound ground beef<br /> 1 large can tomato juice (or tomato vegetable juice, spicy or regular or low sodium)<br /> 2 cans kidney beans<br /> 1 onion chopped<br /> garlic powder to taste<br /> 2 teaspoons chili powder<br /> salt and pepper to taste<br /> <br /> Brown ground beef, drain off the fat.&nbsp; Put into slow cooker, along with tomato juice, kidney beans, onion, garlic powder, chili powder, salt and pepper.&nbsp; Cook on LOW for 10 hours.&nbsp; If you are going to be home all day, you can also throw everything into a large cook pot on the stove and cook it on LOW for around 10 hours too.&nbsp; <br /> Serve with sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese, and tortilla chips.<br /> <br /> <br />Macaroni Chili:&nbsp; Cook 2 cups of elbow macaroni according to package directions.&nbsp; Spoon macaroni into a separate bowls, and spoon chili over it.&nbsp; Do not add macaroni directly to chili to cook, or else it will turn mushy.<br /> <br /> The lovely thing about this chili is that any kind of cooked meat can be added to it while it is in the slow cooker.&nbsp; This is just a basic recipe.&nbsp; We also cook chorizo or linguica and throw that in, too.&nbsp; Or cut up pieces of leftover steak (beef or buffalo).&nbsp; It freezes wonderfully, so I generally try to double or triple the recipe whenever I can.&nbsp; I then put it into the fridge to cool off, and after it has cooled, put it into separate serving dishes and freeze.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8265209108501335999-830178495127211994?l=thebeadedbranch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBeadedBranch/~4/XlTioHnuXs8" height="1" width="1"/>Teri Landowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07108172202928572748noreply@blogger.com0http://thebeadedbranch.blogspot.com/2012/01/tasty-tuesday-family-slow-cooker-chili.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265209108501335999.post-12858484833689204802012-01-30T16:04:00.001-05:002012-01-30T16:04:48.030-05:002012-01-30T16:04:48.030-05:00Clearly, then the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ~~ Desmond Morris<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8265209108501335999-5198567754411303490?l=thebeadedbranch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBeadedBranch/~4/KdtoAeVulvU" height="1" width="1"/>Teri Landowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07108172202928572748noreply@blogger.com0http://thebeadedbranch.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-sayings_28.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265209108501335999.post-64881539070309656762012-01-27T04:26:00.001-05:002012-01-27T04:26:33.877-05:002012-01-27T04:26:33.877-05:00