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Skriven 2014-02-18 20:03:06 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 10037 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: White Chilli
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Hi Dave,

RH> RH> I saw that too; I guess he doesn't enter that in the ICS
RH> RH> competitions.

RH>  DD> I don't enter cook-offs any more. I'm a judge these days.

RH> T'would be interesting to see how you rate ours.

 DD> The way judging works is that each judge takes a spoonful of each
 DD> chilli and tastes it, judging on colour, texture and taste and
 DD> (should) notes
 DD> comments on each - like "too thin", "needs salt", etc. S/he then votes
 DD> for the chilli s/he likes best of those sampled. Then the second
 DD> favourite and the third favourite. Judges may go back and re-sample
 DD> various cups and often do after narrowing down their choices. Judging
 DD> used to be pretty easy - there would be three or four pretty good
 DD> chillies on each table with one of those being an absolute "runaway
 DD> winner", three or four absolute "spitters" and a few
 DD> middle-of-the-road cups. These days a judge seldom encounters a
 DD> spitter. And the former M-O- R cooks have raised their games to the
 DD> pretty good category.

Got to really have a good chili to take a contest now I guess.

 DD> The individual judging sheets are tallied by the scorekeepers with a
 DD> first place vote worth 3 points, second - 2 points and third a single
 DD> tally. Many cook-offs have been won by a chilli that had no (or a
 DD> single) first place vote but a gaggle of second and third place marks
 DD> on the judging sheets.

It all adds up. (G)

 DD> Part of the fun for a judge is to revisit the judging room right along
 DD> with the cooks to see how the selections s/he made fared overall. I
 DD> usually have two of the top three places and many times have all three
 DD> top vote getters. I have never, yet, gotten all three in the correct
 DD> order.   Bv)=

One of these days........................

RH> RH>  RH> Got to educate those kids as to what real chili is. (G)

RH> RH>  NB> Quite.  Many people think that chili is the beans.... ;)
RH> RH>  NB> Maybe with a bit of meat added, heat optional... ;)   Not
RH> RH>  NB> at all what a real chili would be...

 DD> C'mon up to Spring-A-Leak this next Sunday for the Joe DeFrates
 DD> Regional. I'll get you in as a judge on any two of the three main
 DD> classes (I'm not sure if there will be a Homestyle category). Salsa,
 DD> Chile Verde and Traditional Red Chilli will all select winners to
 DD> represent the Joe DeFrates Regional at the World Chilli Championship
 DD> Cook-off in Palm Springs next October.

Steve still isn't able to drive, otherwise we'd possibly take you up on
that. Chili verde is still not one I'm too familiar with,
tastewise--guess I should try making it a few times, with different
recipes, to get a feel for it.

RH>  DD> My problem with most "white chilli" is that it is so wimpy on
RH>  DD> chilies. Maybe one 4 oz can of chopped green chilies in a huge
RH>  DD> pot of stuff. And hardly any cumin or other interesting stuff.

RH> I know, it's more like a chicken and bean soup. I made one once, for
RH> our Life Group. It went over well, didn't bring any home, but I
RH> thought it was on the wimpy side for chili.

RH>  DD> Here's my idea of a proper chicken chilli - add beenz if you
RH>  DD> like:

RH>  DD> MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

RH>  DD>       Title: Chicken Green Chile Stew
RH>  DD>  Categories: Poultry, Herbs, Chilies, Citrus
RH>  DD>       Yield: 4 servings

RH> Interesting but I'd have to leave the cilantro out. Neither Steve
RH> nor I are especially fond of it.

 DD> I'm not a huge fan of cilantro - but, I have come to tolerate it as
 DD> there are some things that don't taste "right" without it. But, one
 DD> has to be careful as it is easy to overload - and I have marked off
 DD> some
 DD> salsas and chile verdes in competition for that very thing.

We've had some of the same. The Mexican place we liked up on the North
Shore used a lot of it--Steve would request none in his food, I'd ask
for them to go light. I'd still be picking out leaf after leaf after
leaf sometimes.


RH> ... Wisdom consists in knowing what to do with what you know.

 DD> And it's the things that you know that aren't true that will bite you
 DD> in an inconvenient spot.   Bv)=

Yes, too often for your own comfort sometimes.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... OH NO!  Not ANOTHER learning experience!

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