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Tonight I'll make one of my wife's favorites: Pork chops braised in a Jack Daniels sauce served with mashed 'taters, green beans, and corn bread.

And "amen and Hallelujah" to BigJohn's chili recipe. Making your own chili powder and toasting and grinding whole cumin seeds makes it even better.

OK here's the recipe to that I chili i mentioned earlier:

High Def, Stout Chili

1) Rub chuck roast lightly with maple syrup/worstechire mixture. Then rub raost with cumin and beef seasoning (whole foods natural beef seasoning). Sear on both sides in olive oil and place on riser in dutch oven. Pour in 1 16oz bottle of guinness. cover and cook, basting often, until the meat can be shredded with 2 forks.

While meat is cooking:

2) grill red pepper, onion and garlic until tender. Chop to your size preference

3) Combine tomato sauce, fire roasted tomatoes, grilled veggies, kidney beans, black beans, cumin, chili pepper, salt, bay leaf, oregano and ancho pepper in a pot and simmer while meat cooks.

4) after the meat is done and has been shredded, add it to the pot and add broth from meat to taste. add spices to taste.

Sorry but I don't have amounts, I usually wing it each time i make it. I'll be sure to take measurements at the cook off this time.

Tonight its gonna be Misquite Grilled Rib Eyes, Garlic Mashed Potatos, Penne pasta in a Tomato and Goat Cheese Sauce and Steamed Asparagus followed by either Plain Cheesecake or Ice Cream.

mmmmmmm

and tomorrow, funny smelling pee

Thanks everyone, you have pretty much shamed me into making better meals for my wife and kids

In resonse to vassillos
HOW TRUE!
I'll wiz 40 times tomorrow.

Shawn, how much are those big green eggs?
I had a $10 CdnTire charcoal bbq for about 4 years until it was too rusted out to bother using (and we moved). I bought a slightly more expensive one for $40 which is in great shape so far (we only bbq a handful of times a year...don't let me get into the dangers of carcinogenics).
However, if i go looking for a 'lifetime' unit, i would say that green egg looks like a possible winner.

Bigjohn's chilli recipe (first try) it came out incredible followed instructions to a "t" except reduced the red pepper amounts to make sure it was good for the whole fam.
also shepherds pie and strawberry shortcake. everything came out better than i imagined.
Jake