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The Pooka Life

The Chili Recipe
Ok, to my defense, I don’t think, “hot summer day – make chili”
We did have a cold front move in for two days, making me think of the fall, and the cooler temperatures to come. That made me think of the chili. Once I have chili on the brain nothing will do but to make it, no matter the temperature.

My favorite recipe comes by way of my brother in Montana. In fact, the name of the recipe is: Montana Gourmet Chili. Which is to say it has bacon in it. If you’re in Montana and you add bacon to your recipe you can, by law, call it ‘gourmet’ – but you can not call it healthy.

The recipe is very simple, but takes a long time to cook and, as previously stated, it is BAD for you. If you are faint of heart do not read on. Just looking at the recipe can clog your arteries.

Montana Gourmet Chili

1 lb ground sausage
1 lb ground beef (though I use grd turkey – better flavor)
1 lb bacon (get the good kind – not that low fat turkey stuff)

1 medium onion (gotta have your vegatables!)
1 green pepper ( I usually leave this out since it takes away from the meat)
4 15oz cans of kidney beans (or any other bean you like – black is always nice)
1 28oz can of chopped tomatoes< 1 pt tomatoe juice (a 15oz can of sauce will substitue if you don't have any juice) 1 heaping tbsp (might be a tsp - be careful) of Garlic Powder 1 heaping tbsp (I know this is a tbsp) of Chili Powder 1 heaping tbsp ground Cumin (this makes it good) 1 regular tbsp Oregano 2 tsp Cinamon (the 'magic' ingredient) 2 tsp Sugar 1 tsp Salt (add to taste) In a large pot add the tomatoes, juice, and beans and start them simmering. Fry up the bacon then set it aside. Chop your onions (and peppers) then saute them in the bacon grease. Once the onions are done add them to the pot and crumble in the bacon. Fry up your ground meat, then crumble it into the pot. Bring it all to a boil for 40-60 min. to reduce it to the consistancy you want. Then simmer it for 2 hours, stirring every 15 min. Serve with mild sour cream and grated cheese. Enjoy.

The Pooka Life

Dan has weighted in with his laundry thoughts…

Uh, my wife is pregnant. I sort, I wash, I dry, I fold, I put away. No problem. Remember boys, if wifey is happy, then everyone is happy, if wifey is not happy, nobody’s happy.

Dan

I think I need a moment to ponder this wisdom…..

Reckoning

Setting the record straight

OK, there needs to be a little reckoning here. All of you in web-land have been receiving some very one sided information. I was ousted from Blogger-ville a while ago and not able to refute the charges against me. But now I’ve hacked my way back in and before the landlady get’s wind of this I’m going to give you my story.

First: The Guestbook – July 21st Blog

There was some extreme exageration about the guestbook setup. Now I did spend 3 days working on a guestbook form and starting in on the CGI script, but this delay was too intolerable for some ‘antsy-pants’. Much to this person’s credit she did find that our ISP already had guestbook fiees ready to use and downloaded them. But I *actually* set up (except for the lavendar background color) our current page and got everything working. I don’t know where this 90% C, 10% K thing came from. Right about that time my Blog priveledges were revoked, now I’m starting to see a pattern of behavior.

Second: The Laundry – July 24th Blog

Now let’s get one thing straight. I am a laundry machine. I can pump out a load of fully seperated, washed, and dried clothes in less than 1.5 hrs. I can wash a load of laundry as well as George W. Bush can give a tax break to big oil. When do you do laundry? Do you come home from a long day at work, walk your dog, do the dishes, then start a load of laundry at 9pm at night – which will take 1.5 hrs to finish? No, you do your laundry Sat. or Sun. morning when there’s plenty of time to go around the house and find all of someone’s ‘little dainties’ which are strewn around everywhere. Now, when someone – we’ll call her ‘person B’ – wakes up does she want to do laundry right away when it’s hot? No! She want’s her coffee and her breakfast, and that IS all. There will be no talk of anything else until the grumpmiester, er, person B has had her morning coffee. The fact that she normally walks by the laundry room – with all it’s baskets of washed, but *cold*, laundry – in the morning means nothing. Now, you may be asking yourself, if person B needs clean clothes and person A does the laundry on the weekend why can’t person B just ask for the clothes to be warmed up when she’s ready to fold them? Why does person A have to figure out when person B will be ready fold laundry 1.5 hrs before hand – so that the laundry will be at optimum folding temperature? Surely the stress of this guessing game would cause any young, good-looking, innocent laundery-dude to crack and accuse person B of being a “laundry-nazi.” Why can’t we all just work together to live in laundry-peace?

Thank you for listening to the truth 🙂

Guest Book

Well the guest book is up and running. It’s implementation was 90% Chrissie and 10% Kevin. (Hold the applause please). Actually, all I did was check out our ISP site and sure enough, all you had to do was toggle the option for a guestbook and they did the rest. This made Kevin rather grumpy as he was been trying to write a guestbook from scratch for about, oh, four months or so. He says my guest book is lame and no one will want to sign it. We’ll see.

I’ve decided to implement a reward system – anyone who signs my guest book will get….. Hmmm, I’ll have to think of something good.

It’s too early for me to be witty seeing as I woke up before noon today. I need a full 12 hours of sleep to be at peak journal capacity. Sorry I have no link today, fresh out, but come back tomorrow and I’ll have restocked. I promise.

Mine, All Mine

I decided to change this to my own Journal. Kevin has agreed to an occasional post or witty comment but the pressure of constant creativity was just too much for him. He’s decided to focus his creative talents to the html portion of this site so even though he may not appear too often, his presence is here in spirit.