Chili

Recipe number one for the blog: CHILI

I love chili, and eat lots of during the winter, in part because it is very easy to prep, and each week I can make it differently.

This is for 5 meals for me, lunch Monday to Friday.
Hamburger: 3 pounds
(you can also use chicken, or if you feel like chili can only be made the way cowboys did, steak)

1 bottle of Spicy V8
depending on how thick you like your stew, you can use less

1 jar tomatoes. My grandparents have a large garden and can tomatoes every summer, so I get a few cans and like to use one for each batch. This can be added if you like.

Peppers: I use a combination of 2-3 jelepenos, 3-4 bananna peppers, and ocasionaly 1-2 habeneros. I like spicy food, so if you don't feel free to use less, or onions and green peppers. I have friends who do this because they don't like the hot peppers.

1 carton of sliced mushrooms

2 cans chili beans
2 cans black beans
1 can red beans

Seasoning - bear with me, because I do this differently every time.
sprinkle of garlic
sprinckle of onion salt
cyane pepper to taste
red pepper flakes (my brother-in-law grew his own habeneros and jelepenoes and dried them, and gave me a supply, and this is what I use. If anyone else does this and wants me to try them, I'm a willing giny-pig!)

And depending on what I used for hot peppers, I might add some hot sauce, if I'm feeling frisky, I use Blair's "After Death" or if I'm less inclined, I use one of the many in the fridge that are not as painful.

Well, that cover's one meal, I'll post more as we go.

The before and after

Finally putting up my photos for my show. November of 2009, I was 242 pounds, pretty much a fat ass. I got on stage May 22, 2010, at 181 pounds.
Looking back, I needed more than 16 weeks to get my act together.

November 2009

February 2010

May 2010

Day of Show