Justin's (in)famous chili

Ok, i don't know if its infamous but its a chili recipe therefore it must be the best, no one wants a decent chili recipe. So here we go!

another note: this is vegan if you take out the meat, and probably the bouillon...

Get 2 lbs of beans, any beans, I like dry bulk red and kidney beans because they are cheap.
Get 1 lbs of ground beef
BTW: if its a vegetable dice it, dice it to hell
and onion or two, your pick
some garlic, i used 6 cloves
a potato (thanks Chris)
a Jalapeno
some habeneros! (i used 2 but i have like 20 left over, watch out 4th of July)<------ especially these guys you don't want someone getting half a habenero and ending up in the emergency room
12 ounces of tomato paste

spices: garlic powder, paprika, salt, cumin

The cumin is the important part, do not for get cumin, hell you should just have cumin on hand, it smells like body odor but makes everything taste awesome.

Step one: soak the beans, follow the directions on the packaging, and cook or if you are using canned beans skip this part
Step two: brown the beef ( cook it, i threw in the onion at this point to soak up the flavor)
step three: Combine EVERYTHING, like everything, and just a FYI everything I write about is to taste. I dumped in the remaining paprika, maybe 2 tablespoons, a good sprinkling of garlic powder some salt and 2 beef bouillon cubes and about 4-6 cups of water for the bouillon.
step four: let it cook, the longer the better, bring it all to a boil and the bring it to a simmer, i recommend a minimum of 2 hours. Chili can not be rushed, if you wanted quick chili buy the can.


Chili is pretty easy to make, making good chili takes time and reckless abandon. I have made it a few times so there are some nuances that happen in the cooking process that i can't recreate here so get out there and cook. The potato adds some starch to the water and paste to thicken it up. Also the recipe on the Aunt Jemima corn meal makes some decent corn bread.

All in all i spent about $20 for all the ingredients, including the ingredients for making corn bread from scratch. This took me about 3 hours to make and I have an 8 quart stew pot full of chili.

I need a camera to start taking pictures for this...