Silver Case

The “humor” has never been a reason to enjoy Alton Brown episodes. It’s more been a reason to use the fast-forward button.  Tonight was an exception, however, and I found myself snorting in laughter at least a half-dozen times.

How was the food?  The chili recipe was interesting.

• Notable absence:  beans.
• Notable presence: a can of salsa instead of bothering to chop up lots of onions and peppers and tomatoes.
• Notably enviable ingredient:  having a variety of dried pepper species that he could heat with cumin seeds and blend grind into his own fresh chili powder.
• Notably odd ingredient:  crushed tortilla chips to serve a binder to the chili (rather than some Mexican variety of corn flour)
• Notable quick cooking time:  used a pressure cooker to cook the chili in 25 minutes rather than stewing the tough stew meat for “six to twenty-four hours in a dutch oven.”

I would like to make this, but the big problem is I simply can’t get all these beautiful peppers (ancho, cascabel, and arbol) to make the chili powder. (unless I find some in Sydney next week)

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