Questival Missoula!
We are having the most fun 24 hours running around Missoula and completing Questival Challenges! Our team is Far From Llast, and you can follow our progress here.
Author: jshontz
Fudgy Salty Brownies
These are the brownies. The. Brownies. Sure, it takes three bowls, but look at that fudgy layer under that crispy layer! And yeah, I added salted caramel sauce. It was the next logical step. If I’d had ice cream, I’d have done that too. HOWEVER! […]
Food Bowl Day!
Happy Super Bowl!
I have to admit that I don’t really have a team today (or any day, for that matter). I really enjoy watching the super bowl, and I watch football on occasion, but we live in Montana. No professional teams here. I usually pick the team that isn’t getting cheered for at our house and root for them. I like the friendly rivalry. I think that this year our group will be pretty evenly split though, so maybe I’ll cheer for both teams 🙂
Super bowl is all about the food and commercials for me, and I’m really ok with that! Especially when your husband is making the amazingness that is smoked, bacon-wrapped meat.
But I’m contributing too! I’m making the absolute best brownies in the world! (Recipe coming soon)Â And no brownie will ever be complete again without this caramel sauce. There might even be ice cream involved (Salted Starship Brownie, Missoulians?)
I’d love to make these Settlers of Catan nacho bowls, but I think I will end up making spicy baked potato bites instead, since we’ll have plenty of chips and salsa.
Oh and wings! Those are absolutely happening today too!
What are you making?
Where’s the salt?
How can anyone find anything in here? You can’t! Not without taking everything out, at least. This was driving me crazy. It was driving everyone else crazy, too. So I decided to actually do something about it. Nick put all of this together for me, […]
Am I the only one?
Please tell me you do this too.
It’s like that little slot on the handle of my cast iron skillet was made for holding my wooden utensils.
Oh! And I also flatten the ground beef before I freeze it.
You wouldn’t believe how fast it defrosts this way!
I just wanted to check in and see if I was the only weirdo doing this.
Curried Butternut Squash Soup
Holy moly. You know when you’ve been really busy, and then when someone asks you what you’ve been up to, you automatically say, “Not much.” What’s up with that? I think it’s mostly because you can’t just say, “Well I’ve been dancing and working and […]
Chicken Noodle Soup
Look at that steamy goodness! Yes please. For some reason, there was some confusion over whether or not I liked chicken noodle soup. When I told my husband that this is what I was making for dinner, he said, “But you hate chicken noodle soup.” […]
How I Actually Make Chili These Days
My sister texted me to ask if I had a chili recipe that was any good.
My first thought was, “Are you kidding me? I must make chili once a week! It’s awesome!”
But I told her to go to my blog and find the recipe. And then I sent her a link to it, because I’m an overbearing sister and I didn’t want her to possibly miss the link that says “Chili” and then feel like I lied to her or was being a brat. Fortunately, my sisters are very patient with me.
Then I thought, “I wonder if my recipe has changed any since I wrote it all down? I mean, I wrote it in 2010, but it couldn’t be too different?”
O. M. G.
It was appalling. I was mortified. I wanted to text her back and say in all caps DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK!
The pictures were tiny. They were all weirdly yellow. The amounts of ingredients are completely different from what I use now. I used THREE different pots. And I found more than one typo.
Seriously, was I drunk?
Definitely not, but that’s what it seemed like.
So please, accept this new post with my sincerest apologies. And if you ever tried to make chili from my recipe, I don’t even know what to say…
In ONE pot, brown your ground beef with an onion.
I don’t add oil to the pot because there’s usually enough fat in the beef to keep things from sticking. I just toss everything in over medium heat.
When the beef is browned, I add all the beans.
And then diced tomatoes with their liquid.
Then I toss in all the seasonings. (Seriously, WHY was more than one pot necessary?)
And after a couple minutes simmering, you have chili.
Not hard at all.
One Pot Chili
Serves 6-8
1 pound ground beef (or two boneless skinless chicken breasts, or ground turkey, or leave out the meat for vegetarian chili)
1 medium onion, diced
1 14.5 oz can of black beans
1 14.5 oz can of kidney beans
1 14.5 oz can of garbanzo beans (also called chickpeas)
2 15 oz cans of diced tomatoes
1 1/5 tbsp chili powder
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/8 tsp cayenne (1/4 tsp if you like it a little more spicy)
Grated cheese and/or sour cream for serving
Drain and rinse all the beans.
Combine the ground beef and onion in a pot over medium-high heat. When the meat is almost all the way browned, add the beans, the tomatoes with their juices, and all the seasonings. Stir to combine. Allow the chili to come to a boil, and then reduce the heat to low. Let it simmer for 10-15 minutes, and then serve.
***Want an even easier recipe? Combine all the ingredients into a crockpot and stir to mix well. Cook on low for 5-6 hours. Dinner.***
Cinnamon Twist Bread
You guys!! I did it!! I made pretty bread! Actually, I’m going to say that this bread is beautiful. Not even sorry about bragging here, because if you guys know me, you know how much I struggle with bread. I have cried, laughed, given up, […]