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Friday, February 08, 2008
Another Pirate Name Quiz
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Texas Chili
From "The Wild, Wild West Cuisine from the Land of Cactus and Cowboys."
This makes a lot of chili, easily filling my Dutch oven and providing one person 2 weeks worth of dinners. This is the base recipe, adjust as needed for hotness and any other spices you want to add.
There's lots of vegetable chopping in this one, so take what shortcuts you want. For example, instead of fresh tomatoes, I use canned, usually Mexican style or with lime juice.
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
4-6 fresh jalapenos, chopped and seeded
1/2 cup oil
3 pounds chili meat
1/2 tsp Tabasco or to taste
1/4 cup hot (Mexican) chili powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tsp garlic salt
2 T cumin
12 ounce bottle of beer
8-10 whole tomatoes, skinned and chopped
1 6-oz can tomato paste
1 8-oz can tomato sauce
1 4-oz can green chilies, chopped
1 1/4 c water
1/4 tsp pequin peppers, or to taste
2 15-oz cans ranch-style beans, drained and rinsed (optional)
Place bell peppers, onion, garlic, celery, jalapenos and oil in a large Dutch oven or stock pan. Cook over high heat until all vegetables are tender. Crumble in chili meat and continue cooking until brown. Drain off excess fat (optional). Turn the heat off and stir in Tabasco, chili powder, black pepper, garlic sale, cumin and 8 oz of beer (the other 4 are for the cook). Let this mixture stand for 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, green chilies and water. Turn the heat back on and bring to a boil, Meanwhile, place the pequin peppers in a blender and grind them until the are a fine powder. These ave very hot peppers so add them a little at a time. Reduce heat and simmer for 2 1/2 hours. Stir in beans and continue cooking an additional 30 minutes.
Options: I omit the pequin peppers, but often use more Tabasco, or Cholulu sauce and/or Tabasco Chipotle sauce. Sometimes I've added cinnamon or cloves. And I often add a bag of frozen corn along with the beans.
It should be hot enough to draw beads of sweat on your upper lip.
Serve this over Fritos with sour cream and/or cheese.
This makes a lot of chili, easily filling my Dutch oven and providing one person 2 weeks worth of dinners. This is the base recipe, adjust as needed for hotness and any other spices you want to add.
There's lots of vegetable chopping in this one, so take what shortcuts you want. For example, instead of fresh tomatoes, I use canned, usually Mexican style or with lime juice.
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
4-6 fresh jalapenos, chopped and seeded
1/2 cup oil
3 pounds chili meat
1/2 tsp Tabasco or to taste
1/4 cup hot (Mexican) chili powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tsp garlic salt
2 T cumin
12 ounce bottle of beer
8-10 whole tomatoes, skinned and chopped
1 6-oz can tomato paste
1 8-oz can tomato sauce
1 4-oz can green chilies, chopped
1 1/4 c water
1/4 tsp pequin peppers, or to taste
2 15-oz cans ranch-style beans, drained and rinsed (optional)
Place bell peppers, onion, garlic, celery, jalapenos and oil in a large Dutch oven or stock pan. Cook over high heat until all vegetables are tender. Crumble in chili meat and continue cooking until brown. Drain off excess fat (optional). Turn the heat off and stir in Tabasco, chili powder, black pepper, garlic sale, cumin and 8 oz of beer (the other 4 are for the cook). Let this mixture stand for 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, green chilies and water. Turn the heat back on and bring to a boil, Meanwhile, place the pequin peppers in a blender and grind them until the are a fine powder. These ave very hot peppers so add them a little at a time. Reduce heat and simmer for 2 1/2 hours. Stir in beans and continue cooking an additional 30 minutes.
Options: I omit the pequin peppers, but often use more Tabasco, or Cholulu sauce and/or Tabasco Chipotle sauce. Sometimes I've added cinnamon or cloves. And I often add a bag of frozen corn along with the beans.
It should be hot enough to draw beads of sweat on your upper lip.
Serve this over Fritos with sour cream and/or cheese.
Monday, October 15, 2007
GIANT! TV Meme
This is how I've spent my youth, and my not youth.
- Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
- Asterisk * if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD
- If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).
21 Jump Street.
24
Alias
Ally McBeal
American Gothic
America’s Next Top Model
Angel
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Are You Being Served??
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
* Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Black Books
Blackadder
Blake's 7
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Caitlin’s Way
Carebears
Catweazle
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Chicago Hope
Clarissa Explains It All
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Dinosaurs
Different Strokes
Dirty Jobs
Doctor Who (1963 - 1986)
Doctor Who (2005)
Doctor Who (2006)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flash Forward
Forever Knight
Fraggle Rock
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Ghostwriter
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Greek
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gummy Bears
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hardcastle & McCormick
Heroes
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hogan’s Heroes
Hillstreet Blues
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
Hunter
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
JAG
Jackass
Jeeves and Wooster
Jem
Jericho
Joey
John Doe
Just Shoot Me
Keen Eddie
Knight Rider
LA Law
Land of the Lost
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Lexx
Life on Mars
Life With Derek
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnum PI
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama’s Family
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
MI:5
Miami Vice
Millennium
Miracles
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Little Pony
My Name is Earl
My So-Called Life
My Super Sweet 16
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
News Radio
NCIS
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
North Shore
Numb3rs
NYPD Blue
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Phil of the Future
Pokemon
Popular
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
QI
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rocco’s Modern Life
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Robin of Sherwood
Robotech
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Salute Your Shorts
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
seaQuest
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Silver Spoons
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Space 1999
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation (It’s possible – very likely – that I’ve seen every episode of STNG, but I can’t be certain)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky and Hutch
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teachers
Teen Titans
Tenth Kingdom
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
The Andy Griffith Show
The Apprentice
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman
The Brady Bunch
The Closer
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dresden Files
The Famous Jett Jackson
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Goodies
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Lucille Ball Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
The Mythbusters
The Nanny
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Sentinel
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Tribe
The Tudors
The Wonder Pets
The X-Files
3rd Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Thunderbirds are Go!
Thundercats
TJ Hooker
Top Gear
Torchwood
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Two and A Half Men
UFO
Ugly Betty
Under the Umbrella Tree
Veronica Mars
The Vicar of Dibley
The Waltons
The West Wing
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Will and Grace
Wings
Wiseguy
Without a Trace
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wow Wow Wubbzy
Xena: Warrior Princess
X-Men
X-Men: Evolution
You Can't Do That on Television
- Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
- Asterisk * if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD
- If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).
21 Jump Street.
24
Alias
Ally McBeal
American Gothic
America’s Next Top Model
Angel
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Are You Being Served??
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
* Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Black Books
Blackadder
Blake's 7
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Caitlin’s Way
Carebears
Catweazle
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Chicago Hope
Clarissa Explains It All
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Dinosaurs
Different Strokes
Dirty Jobs
Doctor Who (1963 - 1986)
Doctor Who (2005)
Doctor Who (2006)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flash Forward
Forever Knight
Fraggle Rock
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Ghostwriter
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Greek
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gummy Bears
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hardcastle & McCormick
Heroes
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hogan’s Heroes
Hillstreet Blues
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
Hunter
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
JAG
Jackass
Jeeves and Wooster
Jem
Jericho
Joey
John Doe
Just Shoot Me
Keen Eddie
Knight Rider
LA Law
Land of the Lost
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Lexx
Life on Mars
Life With Derek
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnum PI
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama’s Family
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
MI:5
Miami Vice
Millennium
Miracles
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Little Pony
My Name is Earl
My So-Called Life
My Super Sweet 16
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
News Radio
NCIS
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
North Shore
Numb3rs
NYPD Blue
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Phil of the Future
Pokemon
Popular
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
QI
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rocco’s Modern Life
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Robin of Sherwood
Robotech
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Salute Your Shorts
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
seaQuest
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Silver Spoons
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Space 1999
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation (It’s possible – very likely – that I’ve seen every episode of STNG, but I can’t be certain)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky and Hutch
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teachers
Teen Titans
Tenth Kingdom
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
The Andy Griffith Show
The Apprentice
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman
The Brady Bunch
The Closer
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dresden Files
The Famous Jett Jackson
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Goodies
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Lucille Ball Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
The Mythbusters
The Nanny
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Sentinel
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Tribe
The Tudors
The Wonder Pets
The X-Files
3rd Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Thunderbirds are Go!
Thundercats
TJ Hooker
Top Gear
Torchwood
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Two and A Half Men
UFO
Ugly Betty
Under the Umbrella Tree
Veronica Mars
The Vicar of Dibley
The Waltons
The West Wing
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Will and Grace
Wings
Wiseguy
Without a Trace
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wow Wow Wubbzy
Xena: Warrior Princess
X-Men
X-Men: Evolution
You Can't Do That on Television
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