Mike's texas chili - southern

Main Ingredient: Beef Chili Tomatoes Various herbs and spices
Preparation: Crock Pot and Slow Cooker
Course: Various Main Dishes
Cuisine: Southern Texas
Special food: Ethnic
Yield:

Mike's texas chili - southern ingredients

3 lb Ground beef
1 lb Ground pork
1⁄2 T Bacon fat or
5 Precooked strips of bacon Crushed
1⁄5 c Sugar
1⁄8 c Dark brown sugar
1 T Beef soup base
1⁄2 t Instant coffee or
1⁄2 c -real coffee
1 c Chopped celery
1 t thyme
2 t Salt
1 t Cumin seeds
1 t garlic, powder or minced
1 T Cocoa
2 Bay leaves
1 t Cilantro
1⁄2 T Mexican Oregano
1 t Tabasco or
1 t Cayenne pepper (+/-to taste)
2⁄5 c Chili blend
2 T Paprika
1 cn V-8 juice, (48 oz. ea)
1 c Chopped onion
1⁄2 c Green and red peppers Chopped
1 cn Stewed tomatoes (16 oz. ea)

Cooking Mike's texas chili - southern

1. Browni pork and beef, and drain very well.
2. Add all ingredients to large crock pot and cover.
3. Cook on high for 4 - 6 hours or low for 8 - 12 hours.
4. The longer it cooks, the thicker it gets.
5. Cubed roast or steak may be substitiuted for the ground meat.
6. Note: this can be cooked on top of the stove.
7. Brown pork and beef, then cook onions until they become limp.
8. Add all of the other ingredients first.
9. Cook and mix for 5 minutes add meat last cover and cook on low for at least 4 hours.
10. Stiri every 10 to 15 minutes.
11. Last served on 6/19/9Today i"m making this to take to sarah"s 4th of july party.
12. 7/02/9.