@That_Handle

1 year ago

If not first, I would definitely cook the ground beef separate (I give mine flavor when browned with a whole chopped onion and 3-5 cloves of minced garlic/equating amount of garlic powder) then drain+press away quite a lot of its grease using a spatula before transferring it/adding the balance of the ingredients. You might be surprised how quickly you can accumulate enough grease from your [ground meats] cooking to fill an emptied can from one of your canned ingredients. Seeing that can on a regular basis displaying what would have otherwise gone into my body is motivation for being mindful.
As for that dark chocolate, it's not uncommon for me to use cocoa powder - not the hot chocolate/cocoa mix ready-made for drinking but the ingredient typically utilized in baking.
✏️✏️ I'll have to remember to try using dark chocolate chips/candybar squares to ~tame the sauce acidity in those instances when I grabbed basic spaghetti sauce base in lieu of not having canned diced and/or crushed tomatoes.
With as easy as chili is - throwing ingredients ultimately into a common pot in a certain order - I'll often make a large batch recipe and go with the benefits of adding black beans alongside the kidney beans in a sauce base that's simmering while I'm browning the ground beef with the onion and garlic ingredients so the beans can gain a lot of time softening down and won't require as much time to finish off simmering after the ground meat is added into the pot. I have a craving for pasta every so often as well as appreciate extending the number of meals I get from the chili batch. So, I often top a small helping of fettuccine or linguine with quite healthy sized serving of my chili after lightly garlic-salting the pasta to be then topped with chili and a large pinch of shredded cheese to melt on top. If it's just myself, I'll keep a serving of leftovers in the refrigerator for work lunch and/or a lunch/dinner for an upcoming workday evening/weekend afternoon that I know will be too busy to get vested into cooking. The balance will get frozen in individual serving size containers to be thrown into the pot on occasion for a relatively quick grab-and-reheat meal days, weeks or a sick day later. 👍🍻

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