If there was ever a time that you would like to know that you are eating when you are eating, it is when you are eating chili. Show me a truly good bowl of chili N of Mpls and I'll buy it for you.
Many in the restaurant business Up North apparently feel that it is taboo to offend anyone with spice and/or with depth and complexity of flavor. Or else, like a lot of restaurant owners Up Here, they simply know nothing of food and make the very tired and bland variety of chili that is unbelievably actually called chili. The origin of chili is the chili pepper. Nary a pepper will be found in most chilis Up North. Ground beef, onions, kidney beans, chili powder and canned tomato soup. Not a real pepper. No garlic. Not a tomato. Cooked too long and too thick. Bland, boring glop.
I had a cup at a local bar/restaurant on the south shore of Mille Lacs yesterday. I should have known better. I do know better. Even a Mn style chili can be good. Just not in a local restaurant or cafe or bar. Too bad.
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How bout a chili recipe?
Have you ever had the famous Cincinnatti chili that they serve over spaghetti?
I love Cincinatti chili, but have found that I cannot sell it up here.It is great w/ a side of jalapeno cheddar cornbread.
Yes, I will do a recipe.
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