What's in your chili?

Making chili right now. ;D
I know everyone has their own recipe, some take a lot of pride in it, just wondering what goes in yours?

I go with a pound of maple smoked bacon
lean ground beef
Jalapeno's -- not the jarred ones
Portebello mushrooms
tomatoes
tomato paste
a red bell pepper
chick peas
kidney beans
Chili sauce
hot sauce
lots of garlic
Chili flakes
chili powder
chipolte chili powder
cumin
salt pepper
and a smattering of nutmeg, ground cloves and cinnamon
basically seasoned to taste

It comes together over four hours or so and served with jalapeno jack cheese


* Forgot, also use a red onion

 

I usually goose a recipe like Carroll Shelby or Wick Fowler. But I use molasses and cinnamon in mine as a curve ball. They taste the sweet before they taste the heat.

 

I have been making one with red wine vinegar and lemon juice added in to balance the hot spices. It starts mild then just warms the mouth 4-5 seconds after the bite.

It's freeking tits.

 

I made some chili from scratch several months ago. It was my first attempt, and it was quite good.
Cubed chuck
Ground turkey
Chorizo
Onion
Bell pepper
Garlic
Fresh jalapenos
Fresh seranos
Tomato paste
Canned crushed tomato
Salt
Fresh ground black pepper
Dried cayenne
Dried californias
Dried new mexicos
Mexican oregano
Cumin
Thyme
Smoked paprika
Cinnamon
Brown sugar

That's off the top of my head. I might be forgetting some stuff.

 

If it's got beans, it ain't chili.

 

I read this too fast and thought you put goose in the chili.

(You didn't, right?)

 

Au contraire. The only thing chili without beans is good for is to drizzle over hot dogs.

 

amen to that.

 

The chili cookoff sanctioning body disagrees.

http://www.chili.org/rules.html

 

I like how there is a sanitation rule as well. and what is hominy?

 

Dried corn soaked in a lye solution until it's puffy.