Crackpot! - Salsa Chili

[doddiemoemoe]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
 bboyminn:
> 
> CrAckpot, I'm sure that was a typo, but you have to admit
> it's funny...crackpot chili recipes. ;)
> 
> I was making regular cooking pot chili one time and I tend
> to improvise a bit around a basic recipe. I looked in the
> refrigerator to see what I had, and saw Salsa. That seemed
> like the perfect thing to put in chili. But the resulting
> chili had a terribly overpowering vinegar taste to it that
> resulted in my throwing away a whole pot of chili.
> 
> So, do you use special Salsa, does the long cooking reduce
> the vinegar taste, or do you just not mind the taste of
> vinegar in this context? 
> 
> Just curious.

Doddie:

Actually, there's salsa fresh--what you find in the refridgerator 
section of the supermarket, and salsa...in jars(ala Pace Picante 
sauce) that are found on the shelves in the "mexican" or "foreign" 
aisle in your grocery store...you may be able to get away with fresh 
if you use whole dry beans in your recipie...but if you use beans 
from a can....no good...and if you make no bean chili.."fresh" salsa 
will be a disaster because the fat of the meat will absorb all the 
vinegar in the salsa..depending upon the amount(if/how/when the meat 
what marinated)...cilantro may countereffect this effect..but most 
likely the countermeasure of lime typically becomes so drastic that 
there is a bitter taste to the meat.

Therefor, I'd imagine they are talking about a Jar of salsa off the 
grocery shelves as opposed the a canister of salsa from the 
refridgerated section..

Does this make any sense???

The only time I use the "refridgerated" salsa in my chili recipie is 
if I use a chuck roast/chuck steak as opposed to an butcher ground 
beef or poutry...I'll marinate the meat in said referidgerated salsa 
with sprigs of cilantro and some soy sauce added..I use ground meat 
for my convenience at home..

Doddiemoemoe
(who cannot use most seasoning packets because my kids are allergic 
to so many things)