Congratulationa!

Congratulations! I've never had chili with spaghetti in it, closest being chili mac, which is just a little chili over macaroni instead of tomato sauce. Can you describe your chili more? How nice to win, especially when it's a last minute thing!

Great News! I like my chili soup with spaghetti in it. I'll bet it was really tasty!

Sue

I also make chili mac, which is chili over spaghetti.

My former sister in law used to put mashed potatoes in individual bowls, and pour chili over it.

How wonderful, Susie. You must be thrilled.

Awesome! Congratulations!!

I forgot to ask Susie, was it chili or chili soup you made? Around here when they have chili suppers it is usually chili soup they have.

Sue

My mom used to serve it over/with mashed potatoes. I was instantly in love when I tried chili mac for the first time.

Congratulations to you! Corn in it? Sounds fabulous. I've never had chili with spaghetti in it, either. When there has been pasta in it it has been macaroni (like elbows). If you're willing to share your recipe, I'd be honored!

I've never seen that, about the only variation I've been served is chili over cornbread - no pasta included ;-). But congratulations in any case! It must have been good.

High Fives Susie!

Here we call it Spaghetti Red when it's served over spaghetti. I make my Chili with corn in it sometimes, it makes it sweeter. Love it. I make several kinds of Chili, with beans, without, chicken chili, sausage chili and white chili.

Very cool!!! I love that it was a last minute thing for you and you still won!

OH!!! The chili was OVER the spaghetti? I get it now! I was thinking that you meant that the spaghetti was IN the chili! Sorry for being stupid! HAHA

(But ... I'd still love to have your recipe!)

Way to go!!

Yes, please share your recipe. I, too, have never heard of chili over spaghetti.

Congratulations Susie!!! I've never heard of spaghetti with chili. I like my chili over rice.

Congratulations!

Good job!

Yay! Congratulation to you!

Cincinnati chili is served over spaghetti.

Ok, so spaghetti in, not under. Thank you so much for telling us how you made it. I honestly will give it a shot, perhaps this weekend. Sorry to focus on the spaghetti, but did you leave it full length or did you break it up, like in half or something? Congratulations again on your win. Nice job!

Congratulations! Did you get a prize of some sort?

Thanks for the chili description. Sounds like a great organization.

Speghetti can be very good in chili, but I do not use it in my recipe. Mine calls for kidney beans, carrots, celery, onion, green peppers with ground beef. Add chili powder to taste (lots of chili powder). The secret ingredient: something sweet. After all the ingedients are in the pot and cooking, add a small amount of brown sugar. Be very careful. It easy to over do the sugar and that will ruin the flavor. Add a small amount at a time, and then stir and taste. Some folks I know uses raisins instead of sugar.

Congratulations! I love chili any way there is to eat it. Except over fries. Dunno why? I love it over rice, with noodles, ground beef, diced steak, white chicken... LOVE it. Good stuff.

Isn't funny how many ways people make chili. My hubby likes it on rice, also. I fact, he loves it warmed up the next day even better. Nothing better then a bowl of hot chili on a cold day. We also sprinkle shredded cheese on top, too. Hubby likes cracker crumbled up in his.

Suzieque, I break it up to make it easier to eat.

No prize, just get my name on a plaque. It's just all in fun. We usually have a place fix the meal. Our church ladies do it a couple times a year. Nice money maker for us, too.

We are getting everything in line for our fair in June. We are adding some new things this time. One thing is an adult bike race. We are purchasing 3 bikes so we are raising money to buy them. They are really expensive. We had a 50/50 drawing this time and my friend won it. She gave her part back to the club. We are in for tons of fun this year,. Do you remember the old Match Game? We are doing this, too. So of the questions will have to do with some businesses and people in town. I can't wait for this..

Sooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!

Susie, your recipe is very much like mine. Sometimes I do put sweet pepper in mine along with the onions. I usually use either elbow spaghetti or elbow macaroni that has been cooked and put in it. I use the Red Gold petite diced tomatoes too and tomato juice and Bush's Chili magic. Sometimes another can of red beans and seasonings. So happy for you.

Sue

Congratulations! At work we had a fun chili cook-off a couple of years ago between our department and another department, with about 15 entries. My chili ended up winning first place, for which the prize was a cheap plastic trophy and bragging rights. (I get a lot of use out of the latter.) Now whenever I give someone the recipe, I'm sure to title it "Award Winning Chili" Freshly made the recipe is unpleasantly hot (even for me) which is why one of the recipes steps is to refrigerate overnight which mellows the heat and broadens the flavor profile.

Award Winning Chili

4 lbs Choice Angus Stew Beef
1 lb Smoked Sausage (chopped)
1/2 lb thick-sliced Bacon (chopped)
2 large Yellow Onions (chopped)
1 large Sweet Onion (chopped)
1 large Red Bell Pepper
2 Serrano Pepper (seeded and chopped fine)
1 Tbsp Oil
3 Tbsp Cumin
1 1/2 Tbsp Chili Powder
1 1/2 Tbsp Ancho Chili Powder
2 Tbsp Diced Pickled Jalapeno Peppers
1 Tbsp Crushed Garlic
1 tsp Black Pepper
2 15 oz cans Diced Tomato w/ peppers (drained, reserve liquid)
1 small can Tomato Paste
1 Tbsp Adobo Sauce
4 Chipotle peppers (seeded and chopped)
2 15 oz Bush's Chili Beans
3 15 oz cans Black Beans (drained)
1 15 oz can Small Red beans (drained)
2 12 oz bottles Dark Beer (porter or stout)
1.5 oz Lindt Dark Chocolate w/ Chili

Spread beef pieces on baking sheet and place in freezer for about 10
minutes. Place in batches in food processor and pulse several times
until meat is coarsely ground. Next brown meat in large shallow pan over
high heat in smallish batches, deglazing pan with the beer between each
batch, keeping seared meat and the deglazing liquid in a glass bowl for
later.

Next cook smoked sausage until lightly browned, and remove that meat
to another bowl. Then cook bacon until crisp, and remove to bowl with
smoked sausage.

Then add the onions to the bacon grease and cook over medium heat until onion is softened and translucent.

Start large pot with oil over high heat, add red bell pepper and
serrano pepper, stirring frequently until the peppers are browned and
lightly scorched. The add onions to large pot and add chili powders,
cumin, and garlic stir in well for a few minutes, then add tomato paste,
pickled jalapenos, black pepper, chipotle peppers and adobo sauce, stir
and cook for a few more minutes.

Next add the diced tomatoes, all of the beans and the two bowls of
cooked meat, and any remaining beer, heat to simmering and reduce heat
to low and simmer for about 1 hour until the meat is tender. If the pot
seems too dry after it reaches simmering, add some of the reserved
liquid from the canned tomatoes.

Remove from heat, stir in chocolate, refrigerate overnight.

Reheat the next day to a low simmer, and serve with shredded cheddar on the side.

That does sound hot and award winning Bob!

Congratulations! I love chili over mac & cheese.

Fantastic!!!! Love to see your recipe as I love chili.

Bob, your soup sound great. Congrats on the win!! Maybe I will get a silly trophy for the next winner. Sounds like fun!!

I was helping organize the cook-off so I went to a local party supply store and found that they had a package of 4 small, identical trophies for $3 or so. So they were cheap and cheesy, but all in good fun.

I am going to start looking. This sounds like so much fun!! I could surprise them!! Thank Bob.

Great job Susie!

Congrats on the victory. A friend of mine always put his chili over spaghetti and he talked about how "hearty" it was. To me it seemed like it would be too filling. I always make my chili thick and meaty so adding more heaviness just seemed wrong somehow. Then came the internet and I started reading about "Cincinnati" style chili. I started thinking more about it and my spaghetti sauce is usually (again) quite thick so in a way it's similar to a chili. I like several different meats in chili (pepperoni, bratwurst, ground beef, pork sausage, cubed beef if available, etc) and thick enough to stand a spoon up in it. I don't like it soupy. I like to eat a meal, not drink it. (Though in my younger days I drank a few meals!) And yes, I like beans in my chili. Get over it. Many years back I was on a mission to perfect my chili recipe and made batch after batch until I struck the result I wanted. Problem was... I didn't write it down. And after so much chili I got chilied out and didn't make it for a long time and of course didn't remember how to make it anymore. Lost forever. Oh well. It's still enjoyable to experiment. And a good ladle of chili over a huge baked potato is a real treat around a campfire.