One of my favorite cooking shows is Tyler Florence Ultimate. Mr. Florence had a show last week about his best Texas style chili recipe. It looked great so I thought I'd try it out over the Thanksgiving weekend. It had a lot of ingredients. I think it cost something like $30 for all the ingredients. Spices sure are expensive. So I got it all home and spent about 3 hours on Saturday putting it all together. After the allotted time was over I eagerly picked up a spoon and tasted it. My first reaction was that it was really spicy. This was a surprise because one of the ingredients was 2 tablespoons of ancho chili powder, which I forgot to get so it was never added. I could have overlooked that if it had tasted good but really it was just spicy and had no real chili flavor. It was a bit of a disaster.
As I was writing this I wanted to reference the recipe that I followed. Low and behold I think I discovered the problem. This is the recipe that I looked up online:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/beef-chili-recipe/index.html
Notice that it is on the official food network site and has tyler florence at the top of it. Looks legit right?
Now look at this one:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/tylers-texas-chili-recipe2/index.html
This is what I believe was the correct recipe. On the surface they both look fairly similar but they are not.
One thing I know I got wrong was the 3 canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. I read that as 3 cans of chipotle peppers. I actually only had 2 cans but I put them all in. This was quite an effort. Someday I'll try again.
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