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Skriven 2014-09-12 20:37:32 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 16895 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: relish  was: kitchen
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> We'd be down in Raleigh for a late morning or early afternoon doctor's
 RH> appointment before hitting Whole Foods. They were just up the road
 RH> (heading back toward WF) from a doctor we used to see (she's retired
 RH> now). Have to go in next Wed. and I plan to hit up Jo-Ann Fabrics
 RH> after the appointment. Can't spend too much time in Raleigh as we've
 RH> got church in the evening.

 NB> That's when one has an early early supper... we often find that if we
 NB> eat a meal mid-afternoon, it will do instead of supper... then one
 NB> only need the midafternoon-type snacks for the evening..  ;)

My appointment was scheduled for about 1:45 but had a call yesterday
from the office rescheduling it for 10:30. Since I need a test before
seeing the doctor, we probably won't get out before lunch time. We can
grab lunch (make it a more substantial one so can get by with an easy,
light supper), then go shopping and still be home for church.

 NB>  NB>> Hmmm.... that sounds more like a Sloppy Joe recipe... just
 NB> missing the  NB>> buns to serve it on...  :)   Not even any chili
 NB> powder (or spice at  NB>> all, for that matter) in it...  ;0

 RH> It might pass for Sloppy Joes but not in this house. The worst Sloppy
 RH> Joes I ever made were back in AZ--I had an older chili powder jar with
 RH> some dried peppers of an unknown variety in it. Without thinking it
 RH> was that, I made up the meat/tomato mix, shook in some "chili powder"
 RH> and thought "I'll just use up the jar, it's old anyway"--added the
 RH> rest. Even Steve couldn't take the heat; that batch went down the
 RH> garbage disposal and we did something else for supper.

 NB> Yeah, I remember you telling about that before..   ;)  It IS possible
 NB> to get things too hot.. (G)   Most Sloppy Joes I've been served
 NB> haven't
 NB> been spiced up, just hamburger meat in tomato sauce, pretty much...
 NB> only mild spicing if any...  Sounds like you do yours more like a
 NB> chili as a matter of course..   :)

About the only things it lacks from being like my family friendly chili
are the beans and corn. Not quite as much tomato either but lots of
peppers and onions with the spicing.

 NB>  NB>> doesn't even have a can or two of beans in it... that's usually
 NB> how  NB>> some differentiate between sloppy joes and chili...  (G)

 RH> Could be the family's version of chili. After all, I've seen some
 RH> pretty "interesting" versions at the church's chili cook off. The one
 RH> that won this year was nothing like what would pass for chili in this
 RH> echo.

 NB> Could be, I suppose...  Trying for a bean-less chili, and at a heat
 NB> level that they can take... although one really should have at least a
 NB> pinch of cbili powder in the batch to call it chili..  ;)

I don't know if this year's winner did--it was sweet, had sausage (link
type) in it and just not chili in, not only our, but some other folks,
opinions. No heat that I can recall either. I think the judges were
scared of heat. (G)

 NB>  NB>> Just came off jury duty... yesterday for lunch I bought a cup of
 NB> chili  NB>> from the little food service area outside where the
 NB> Central Jury Room  NB>> was... Not particularly spicy, but had a
 NB> little heat to it, large  NB>> chunks of ground meat and a dash of red
 NB> and kidney beans in it,
 NB>  NB>> somewhat tomatoey sauce..  Not bad for $2.75, and was at least
 NB>  NB>> edible..  ;)  Probably wouldn't buy it again, at least not right
 NB> away,  NB>> but I don't have to go back now... we finished our case...
 NB>  :)

 RH> Well, you got to try somebody's version, probably from a big factory,
 RH> put into a #10 can and just heated. But, it was something for lunch,
 RH> and you didn't have to cook or clean up. (G)

 NB> I don't think it was from a big factory, or came from a can.  It
 NB> probably was just their version..  The chunks of hamburger meat were
 NB> too large and uneven to have come from a processing plant, and tasted
 NB> too
 NB> fresh..  ;)  Also more meat than anything else... it was really thick
 NB> with the ground meat..   :)   And yes, it was something for lunch that
 NB> I hadn't had to prepare and bring with me...  :)

Sounds like they made a good attempt at chili then, but not quite
hitting the mark. That's a plus for a food service place, that they
weren't going with all pre done foods.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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