Bruce W

Oops - I forgot to thank everyone, again.

Ended up using the Rotella tomatoes/green chilies, dark red kidney beans, crumbled cooked bacon, white sweet corn, chopped onion, a "dash" of the liquid smoke, and the Chili-O.

We had 7 folks make chili and about 20 others had everything from homemade corn bread to rice/bean dishes to homemade apple and coconut pie!

Mine (chili) was the "spiciest" and came in at #2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As I had thought, most of the folks liked the "standard"/not-too-hot style, but EVERYONE tried some of each for the "judging".

"Winner" donated his $'s to get us a new American flag for our entrance!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, again, to all that helped with their recipes - I will CERTAINLY try many of them in the near future - winter is CHILI time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards,

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Bruce
Boatless as of 5/14/10