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[scatman]

Tonight's dish is a garbanzo bean, chorizos soup.



Ingredients -

1 lbs. dry garbanzo beans, soaked overnight
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 celery stalk, chopped
5 leeks. chopped
4 carrots chopped
1 package of cubed ham
12 cups of chicken broth
3 chorizos, sliced into 1/4 inch rounds. ( I only used two)

This recipe is supposed to be done in a pressure cooker, but I modified it for my Dutch ovens. I also added four chopped Yukon gold potatoes even though the recipe didn't call for them.

Soak the chickpeas overnight


Simmer the beans for two hours


Brown the sliced chorizos


Chop the vegetables


Combine and cook for eight minutes. At this point I realized that I would need a second Dutch oven to hold all of the ingredients


Cube four Yukon gold potatoes


I divided everything between the two Dutch ovens


And then I simmered the soup for another 35 minutes until the potatoes where soft


Dished it out into a large bowl and had some jalapeño cheese bread with some added jalapenos on it.

 

[scatman]

Not much of a corn beef and cabbage kind of a guy, even on St. Patrick's Day, so I made some (Irish?) chili. I've posted this recipe before, but this time I added a green bell pepper to the mix, and I switched out black beans for kidney beans, and instead of a small can of mushrooms, this time I used a large can.







I then topped the bowl off with some Cache Valley Colby and Monterey Jack Cheese.

 

[kwc]

You lost me at mushrooms … but it does look really tasty!

 

[scatman]

You lost me at mushrooms … but it does look really tasty!

Mushrooms are optional.

 

[Ugly]

Last night, I made enough souvlaki for a whole week... It will give my wife something to eat with salad while I work events the next four nights in a row.


A week or so ago there were some peach bourbon babyback ribs.



I was not patient enough and only got these to 197d... some were perfect, some needed to get to 201d, but they were good. Sprouts are good when you char them crispy beyond recognition
The whole meal was also less than the cost of 1 steak.

 

[Ugly]

This also reminds me, there was some good food had in SE Utah what was now a few weeks ago:

Some golden curry in the Needles... and plenty of Easter candy, like Peeps and cadbury eggs.


Clamatoes and homemade chili with dogs... Those might be circus peanuts in the background of the pic too.


Philly Cheese steaks with provolone... not cheez whiz- IYKYK


Also calling back my younger years, the classic Dinty Stew with instant rice and cornbread muffins.

 

[SteveR]

Good to see some proper camp grub! I always shake my head at friends who go with freeze dried backpacking meals when car camping.

 

[scatman]

This also reminds me, there was some good food had in SE Utah what was now a few weeks ago:

Some golden curry in the Needles... and plenty of Easter candy, like Peeps and cadbury eggs.
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Clamatoes and homemade chili with dogs... Those might be circus peanuts in the background of the pic too.
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Philly Cheese steaks with provolone... not cheez whiz- IYKYK
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Also calling back my younger years, the classic Dinty Stew with instant rice and cornbread muffins.
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All of this looks delicious. I may need to hire you for my next car camping trip. You do know that circus peanuts make the meal?

 

[Ugly]

All of this looks delicious. I may need to hire you for my next car camping trip. You do know that circus peanuts make the meal?

From his job description on his defunct webpage:
Chef Ugly is usually good to go with just good campsites, good food, and good company. He rarely charges, unless there are outrageous requests or you want to tip him bc he does an Onion Train or flips shrimp into your mouth. He does also really enjoy sugar and sweets... or ribeyes and scallops...

Maybe next desert season I will get you to come along with us to the desert. It really is conducive to great food, and circus peanuts.

 

[scatman]

Getting to that time of year when I put the Dutch oven away, but before I do, tonight's meal is called Campfire Dutch Oven Corn Bread Chili. Of course, I'll be using my stovetop and not an open campfire. I have never made this recipe before, so it should be interesting.

The recipe is as follows:

- 1 TBS of olive oil
- 1 1/2 lb. of ground turkey (I only used one pound)
- 1 onion diced (I used a yellow onion)
- 1 red bell pepper diced (I added an additional orange bell pepper to mine)
- 1 anaheim chile, seeded and diced
- 1 jalapeno pepper, diced
- 4 cloves of garlic minced
- 2 TBS chile powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp of salt
- 15 oz can of black beans, drained
- 15 oz can of tomato sauce
- 15 oz can of diced tomatoes (I used garlic and fire roasted diced)
- 3 oz chipotle chile in adobo sauce
- 4 oz green chiles, drained and diced
- 1/2 cup of water if needed
- 1 box of cornbread mix

Chop up your vegetables


And mince four cloves of garlic


Chopped veggies


Ingredients


Brown your turkey


Mix in vegetables and cook for about six minutes


Add the chili powder, cumin and salt


Add black beans, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and chilis


And mix


Let simmer for 30 minutes to two hours. The longer you simmer the better it is supposed to be. I simmered mine for 60 minutes due to time restraints.

After 60 minutes of simmering


Mix the corn bread mix in a mixing bowl according to box directions, mine called for using 1 egg, 1/3 cup of milk and 1/3 cup of water.

Once mixed, pour over the chili.


With a spoon spread corn bread mix to the sides of the Dutch oven as evenly as possible, then cover and place in a preheated oven at 400 degrees for 26 minutes.

Not quite as brown on top as I thought it should be.


After spooning some out


Served with a slice of garlic bread.

 

[The Trout Whisperer]

That looks delicious!