KILL IT CUT IT UP AND COOK IT: OVER THE TOP CHILI

Hello Foodie Friends.

It's a BEAUTIFUL day here in Central Florida and it's
another day of SEC Football !!!!

My Gators try to bounce back from last weeks loss to Georgia to take on Vanderbilt. I was hoping to see Riley Neal at QB for the Commodores. He's a grad transfer from my Alma Mater - Ball State. But he is on concussion protocol, so he can't play.

Then it's on to the game of the year L.S.U. and Alabama.

I'm not a big L.S.U. fan

But I think Alabama has won enough. Even if my wife did go to school with little Nickie.

It should be a great game.

But I digress.

Game day meal this week is Over The Top Chili and we are turning to the best outdoor grill ever made..... THE BIG GREEN EGG.

If you don't have one you should !!!!

I'll wait while you go get one.

Are you back? Good.

This is SO EASY, You'll thank me later.

After researching a bit on the Big Green Egg chat group, we came up with this:

OVER THE TOP CHILI RECIPE

Set up your GRILL

Heat to 250 degrees

This is why the Big Green Egg works so well. You can maintain the temp within a few degrees. I can not do that on my Gas Grill. And I haven't used the "other" Charcoal type grill in 30 years.

For the Charcoal, we chose something new that was recommended on the chat group.

Our local ACE Hardware carried this so we decided to try it out.

We used it for a couple of evening meals and liked it. It's not smokey and heats well and easily.

Let's get to work.

If you missed the best way to start your egg, please review the following:

HOW TO PROPERLY START YOUR GRILL

Let's move on while the grill heats up.

2 TBL VEG Oil in a Cast Iron Pot

3 Onions (Diced)

4 Cloves of Garlic (Chopped)

1 Nice RED Sweet Pepper (Chopped)

1 - 14.5 Ounce Can of Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes. (If you do not like big pieces of ma-ter, run this through your blender)

1 - 15 Ounce Can Black Soy Beans Rinsed (This is for us LOW CARBERS- You can use Red Kidney Beans

1 - 4 Ounce can of HATCH GREEN CHILIES (Chopped)

Heat the oil over Medium High heat, then saute your Onions and Peppers

When Sauteed, add the Garlic and cook for about a minute.

Add the Tomatoes, Chilies, ¼ Cup Chili Powder, 1 TBL Ground Cumin, ½ tsp Ground Oregano, and 1 tsp Salt and 1 tsp Ground Fresh Pepper

Continue to cook.

Place your meat (1 ½ to 2 LB Ground Chuck) into a bowl.

Add your TACO Seasoning (2 PKG Ortega) and mix with your hands.

Form it into a nice BALL of meat.

Turning back to your POT, ADD 6 OZ of Beer.

Take Pot out to the Big Green Egg and place it on your plate setter.

Place a rack on top of the Pot.

Put your meat ball on top of the rack. Close the lid

Cook for 2 ½ hours, maintaining your heat at 250 degrees.

Time for a beer and SEC Football.

After 2 ½ hours, remove the meat ball and put on a cookie sheet.

Chop the meat to desires texture.

CUTTING board should have been bigger !!!

Add the meat to the pot.

Add another 6 oz of Beer (Always SAVE the beer)

Cover and cook for 2 more hours !!!!

Have another beer. More football to come.

This turned out G R E A T !!!

We added some grill cheese samwitches to go with our meal. Penny had some LOW CARB bread she wanted to use. After 4 months of NO bread, they were GREAT !!!