In case you’re not a regular around these parts, this post is late. It’s late because I entered this recipe into a Chili Cookoff at work. On Thursday. By the time I made it on Wednesday night, it was waaaaay past the sun’s bedtime (and mine too) so I had to opt out of photo taking.

Plus, I wanted to wait to let you know if it became Award-Winning. It didn’t. And I’m not bitter. But everyone who knew which one was mine told me it was really good. Whether or not they said it only to preserve our friendship is unclear, but at least Justin and I thought it was good!

However, a similar chili HAS won awards…Dad used to enter a chili like this into the church’s chili cookoff. I asked him what was in it when the time came for my cookoff and he sent me a list of ingredients and said “most of this stuff is all to taste.” You can imagine how hard my eye-roll was. Thanks, Dad. Thus, this chili recipe was born through LOTS of tasting. Justin mostly tasted, because I’ve got a sinus infection right now and can’t hardly taste anything!…

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