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Showing Original Post only (View all)Do you make your chili with or without beans? [View all]
A good friend and I argue every time the topic of chili comes up. I am firmly in the bean camp, he is just as firmly anti-bean. Making a pot now, and while straining the light red kidney beans and black beans, I wondered about the opinions of my DU family, and also any secret ingredients you may add.
Chili: Beans or No Beans?
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i do 2 versions built on my paternal grandma's. my aunt is allergic to beans.
pansypoo53219
Sep 2024
#14
my grandma made hers w/ kidney beans, pasta + potatoes. i don't like mixing taters + pasta. my other aunt is not a bean
pansypoo53219
Sep 2024
#42
The Southwest style is more like a gravy or carne guisada, served on top of corn bread etc.
LeftInTX
Sep 2024
#49
Usually w/dark/light kidney beans and multicolored peppers, mushrooms, sweet onion, fire-roasted diced tomatos, spices -
Backseat Driver
Sep 2024
#27
gound beef( wheres the beef)? boil in a bag rice an frozen mixed veggies for a rounded meal :)
AllaN01Bear
Sep 2024
#43
Beans until the next time because my new girlfriend can't eat beans. Not a lot anyway. Or I make a side-batch
brewens
Sep 2024
#53
A restaurant chain called Bob's Big Boy on the west coast had that on their menu.
Mr.Bill
Sep 2024
#63