Re: Tuesday Night Dinner Plans? 4/08/2025

Graham wrote:
 

On 2025-04-27 11:40 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-04-27, ItsJoanNotJoAnn <ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net> wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 6:48:34 +0000, Bruce wrote:
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:17:01 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1)
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I'm eating a senior ready-to-eat meal. All you have to do is
microwave it for 3 and a half minutes. I cooked it for 4
minutes longer and the pork chili is not fully warmed up.
It's a depressing, cold, meal. Boy, seniors have got it bad!
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/RBS8xYwFdoZrNtBx7

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And that eternal corn.
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There's enough starch in this questionable meal for
a week.  Corn and chili?  😖    The rice is not
impressive either, although there is a restaurant
here that offers 3-way chili. Chili, tamale, and
spaghetti.

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I used to know a guy from Florida who ate chili over rice.
My husband eats it over spaghetti.  For him, three-way
is spaghetti, chili, and shredded cheddar cheese.
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I like to make it very thick and scoop it up with tortilla chips.
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One of these days, I should try to make a meatless chili with
a couple of different kinds of beans.  I suspect my husband
would exile me to the workshop, though.
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I thought that the full name is "chili con carne" implying that
the base recipe is vegetarian.

  I think you are right but the way it's ued it's almost like 'con carne'
means 'with beans'.  That's how it's often functionally used.  Reality
is con (with) Carne (meat) is right.
 American english mixing with spanish can be very strange.  I'm trying
to think of a case of chili with no meat but with beans and come up
blank other than vegetarian chili, as if it were special, versus the
standard.
 I can and have done many a vegetarian chili though.  I use lots of
mushrooms.  Portobella and cremeni seem optimal for it to me.