Chili - "6 Way"

What can I say, we watch too much TV in our house. Really. But....because of what we are watching we are also learning new ways to cook our favorite dishes. Tonight was supposed to be Chili for dinner kinda night. It was. Kind of :)



Our version of a "6 Way" - - next time, more jalapenos!!

1 - Spaghetti noodles
2 - ground beef, slow cooked in tomato sauce and chili spices
3 - red kidney beans
4 - diced onions
5 - shredded colby-jack cheese
6 - sliced jalapenos


Beeeeee-licious!!

This was adapted from a segment featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Awesome. Just, awesome!!

Stewed UP Spaghetti Sauce

I vaguely remember being asked what meat I wanted taken out of the freezer for today's dinner last night before I fell asleep.

Vaguely.

When I got up this morning I decided that spaghetti sounded really good - and we should have it for dinner. I love it when a plan comes together!

But when I went to get meat out of the freezer, I found that this package of stew beef was already thawing.



The only sensible thing to do was to plan on using it in the spaghetti sauce. And I could cook it in the crock-pot! Now we're talking!!

Time to assemble...




Ingredients:

1 1/2-2 lbs stew beef
1 14 1/2 oz can of diced tomatoes
1 26 1/2 oz can of prepared spaghetti sauce
1/4 cup red cooking wine
1 packet, dry onion soup mix
1 1/2 TBS Italian seasoning
1 TBS minced garlic
1 can of water (use the diced tomato can)

Mix well.

1 tsp sugar sprinkled over the combined ingredients.

(Mom always said to do that, and her advice has always been pretty darn good.)

Cook on low 6-7 hours.

With our Stewed UP Spaghetti sauce we served spaghetti noodles, garlic bread, and a fresh salad.

Long after the noodles were gone, the sauce was a welcome dipping sauce for the remaining garlic bread.



Now the garlic bread is gone too.

Success!!