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          Art/Cooking, (circumlunar), 11/03/2018
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Cooking's an art, right?  Therefore, this is the appropriate
blog location for a post on cooking.

Tonight, I'm attending a chili cook-off / fall festival. For
my entry, I'm preparing  slow-cooked vegetarian chili- which
is sure to disqualify me  from any sort of placement (people
love their  meat.) But, it's what  my wife likes to  eat, so
I'm making it in order to help her have dinner this evening,
and therefore enjoy the festival more.

It's  a simple,  tfurrows-made recipe  that is  hardly worth
recording. I wanted to use dried Anasazi beans (I have a bag
that  I  brought  from  Arizona),  but  I  didn't  have  the
patience; instead, it has red  beans, pinto beans, and black
beans,  from  cans  (sorry, connoisseurs.)  It  has  pablano
chili, orange bell pepper, jalapeno,  and onion. It has some
spices, including  dried chili  powder, smoked  paprika (buy
some, you  won't be sorry)  and some others. It  has butter,
olive  oil,  and  coconut  oil. Some  sugar,  tomatoes,  and
vinegar. I think that's about it..

Right now it's  simmering in a crockpot. It's  been in there
since this morning.

For  the  dessert  contest,  my  wife  is  making  cranberry
cream-cheese bread. It's quite  tasty (though, last time she
substituted blueberries) and I  think she'll be competitive.
Of course,  this is just  for kicks,  not an actual  sort of
competition. But still.

I suppose I'll have to report back with the results...