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Dexter Creative

Everybody needs an outlet for creations. This dexnow.com crossroad is a converging of ideas of the past & future..
As children the family refrigerator was a start for publishing or the art gallery to come. The Christmas card has become a graphical communication newsletter of family events last year. Now the internet and messengers present the latest in communications. The internet challenge is how to merge the past family history and ancestry into a meaningful and interesting continuum for the future generations as an ongoing diary or story. I call these stories our FamilyCousin.com eBooks. My Web Sites are random eBook walks with ideas in creative time. Select ralphwaite.com for more recipes.

go-to a mixture of walking music and see my two walking recipes

Dexter's lived in Texas and knows what is "Chili" and what is not!

this Dexter Creative tested recipe is not too hot for Fran - but it still remains one of Dexter's Hot Chili of 11/1999
By the way eight years in Mystic - I have learned how to make great Chowder - see recipes in ralphwaite.com.

Three meat stew beef tips (smaller - cube cuts), ground beef and ground pork
use only fresh Jalapeno and add more or less fresh or dry Harbanero chili peppers to make the hot difference (see below). Do not use much Chili Powder since it often gives the dish an artificial or medicinal taste -not homemade.

20 ounces (or 2 lb*) Stew Beef, browned and drained
20 ounces (or 2 lb*) chili ground beef or regular lean ground beef, browned and drained
20 ounces (or 2 lb*) ground pork, browned and drained
4 cups yellow onion slices, chopped and blanched
8 cloves garlic (4 large), minced or pressed
1 tablespoon cumin powder
1 tablespoon marjoram
1/4 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon oregano
3 tablespoons olive oil, simmer with raw hot
peppers
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
2 sticks celery stalk, chopped
2 whole bell peppers, chopped and pitted
4 whole jalapeno chili peppers, chopped and pitted
3 15 ounce beef broth
2- 28oz cans Whole tomatoes cut in pieces
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
*4-5 tablespoon red or chili pepper powder
1 dry chopped habanero chile

*for a more tomato intense sauce add:
1 15 oz can tomato sauce and 1 small can of tomato paste

makes 6 quarts. brown in pan all meat and drain sauté chopped onions, bell peppers (not hot peppers), celery, garlic in = 3 gallon pot for 15 minutes at medium heat add spices to pot and stir in meat and rise to high heat for adding = liquids add beef and chicken broth to pot bring to boil add tomatoes to pot separately in pan sauté jalapeno and habanero in olive oil for 5 -10 = min medium heat then add to pot after boil contents 5 to 10 minutes simmer for 2 1/2 hours or more depending on texture of stew beef 20 then 30 minutes.
*revised 09/15/2008

Select the RalphWaite.com menu button and go to more "recipes" for more.
Dexter's alternative is seafood or clam Mystic Chowder

6 pounds or 3 quart Quahogs Clams using liquid
(alternate this and use fresh fish sometime)
two 46 oz cans harbor bank ocean clam juice
4 oz salt pork diced 1/3 inch
3 bay leaves
2 medium onions
4 tbl butter
4 garlic cloves
4 celery stlcks
6 sprigs fresh thyme leaves chopped
2 scallions
2 pound potato or 2 large
2 pt half half
ground pepper and kosher salt

optional;
2/3 cup flour
2 tsp worcester sauce
4 dash tabesco
1/2 tsp oregano
2 tbl chopped parsley
1 tbl chopped chives
makes 10 cups
do not over cook fish or clams by adding them at the end of the cooking.

Dexter Creative web sites 04/06/2009

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