January 3, 2007

• 4 pounds round steak, cut into 1-inch cubes
  4 garlic cloves, minced
  1/4 cup cooking oil
  3 cups chopped onion
  2 3/4 cups water, divided
  2 cups sliced celery
  3 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) diced tomatoes, undrained
  2 cans (15 ounces each) tomato sauce
  1 jar (16 ounces) salsa
  3 tablespoons chili powder
  2 teaspoons ground cumin
  2 teaspoons dried oregano
  1 teaspoon salt, optional
  1 teaspoon pepper
  1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  1/4 cup yellow cornmeal
  Shredded cheddar cheese
  sour cream
  sliced green onions
  sliced ripe olives

  In a dutch oven over medium-high heat, saute steak and garlic in oil until browned. Add onion; cook and stir for 5 minutes. Stir in 2 cups water and next nine ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 2 hours or until tender. Combine flour, cornmeal and remaining water; stir until smooth. Bring chili to a boil. Add flour mixture; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Garnish with cheese, sour cream, onions and olives.

  serves 10

  Posted by HRH Queen of Twindom

  Now that’s a Utah recipe, so I’ll  let it go this time–but recipes should go in comments.  My five week hospital stay was miserable but truly spiced up by a visit from the youth of a central Utah clan and their chaparones and watch the other patients scatter in every direction.  Miss Utah  Wool growers of 1949.  She might have recognized some faces.  Grandma’s best friend died about the same time as Kathleen–a flu like illness.  She was the midwife on the Lambing Ground–Ann Sudweeks.  Maybe her soul didn’t want to stick around for the witch hunt.

  I am now assuming that you are my baby sister in twindom. If you remember the story about (presumably) our common father’s fight for DDT–which left one inch of fly corpses on the porcelain of the John–
  I’ve wondered why a junior officer would be involved in this. The problem was war wide.  Those who joined up or stayed on after Hiroshima, and down winders like me were exposed to radiation. Dad  missed this in active duty and picked it up in Utah.

  There were many, many, tropical diseases in the Burma Theatre and the men who were in Japanese Camps had them all, plus malnutrition,
  In The Bridge on the River Quai there is a man in the infirmary who the doctor won’t let out until a scratch on his arm heals.  Sick men are meanwhile being released for work.  The Doctor says he’s likely to keel over and die if he lets him iut early–he’s seen it before.

  Well–now you know.  Was I your Queen Sister in Twindom or, a sister-in-law.  The one with the twin husband and sons?
  I am dying of curiousity–sounds better than a rotting kidney. 
  Any more recipes?

  K.

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