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Chili recipies, people. Tell me how to put my crockpot to excellent use (rather than sort of bland use).

Also, pork chop recipies, no dairy, with less than 10,000 ingredients. If it works with a crock pot, even better!

The good sense to study more when there aren't tests bearing down on me.

Finally, the calm and perseverence necessary to hand-pollinate Arabidopsis. And do more studying.

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Black Bean Chili

[brightspot.livejournal.com]

This is an absolutely amazing chili, that is good even if it sounds questionable. We make at least one batch a week, and eat the left overs for lunches and dinners.

Black Bean Chili

2 cans diced tomatoes with chilis
2 cans black beans
1 medium onion, diced or sliced
1 large cutting tomatoe, diced
4 roma tomatoes, diced
1 each - green, red and yellow bell pepper, sliced and/or chunked
1.5 cups of sliced mushrooms
Garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste

Put a teaspoon of olive oil in a large pot and warm.

Sprinkle garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste into the olive oil, and allow to brown.

Put onion into the pot, allow to cook until "al dente"-ish.

Put green, red and yellow peppers into pot. Allow to soften slightly.

Put diced fresh tomatoes, tomatoes with chilis and black beans into the pot. Raise temperature to get the chili to a gentle boil. Allow to boil for 10 minutes or so, stirring once or twice.

Stir in mushrooms, lower temperature. Let simmer for another 10 minutes...or until you're hungry and ready to eat. ;o)

Serve over a baked potatoe, or brown rice with shredded cheddar cheese and sour cream. Absolutely healthy, absolutely filling, and absolutely delicious!

To use your slow cooker, just prepare all the ingredients, dump them in the crock pot, and let them cook on low all day. It'll be ready when you get home. Just be careful when crock potting for a long time, because it tends to suck the flavor out of foods. Also, peppers can sometimes become pretty bitter in a slow cooker.

Re: Black Bean Chili

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From the clueless: difference between roma and cutting tomatoes?

Re: Black Bean Chili

[brightspot.livejournal.com]

Roma - very sweet, tasty, tomatoe...kind of small and ovalish shaped.

Cutting tomatoe - big, huge, round tomatoe you'd buy if you wanted to cut slices for a sandwhich.

One's good for flavor...the other's good for "substance". :o)