Sweet J’s Smokehouse Chili

Okay,, so we aren’t having a Halloween Bash this year and I’m sad sad sad!   I miss the fun of everyone getting together.  We have all gone in so many directions that it just doesn’t happen like it used to!  So today while I was feeling down in the dumps….I decided I needed to make a pot of chili, and bring back a few pictures from the very first time we got together for Halloween!   My chili isn’t nearly as delicious as J’s but I gave it a shot!   I put his recipe at the end of this post so that I don’t have to search high and low for it next time I’m brave enough to ask him to make it again!   He can’t say, “I don’t have the recipe any more!”

Halloween Bash

1 bunch celery

1 large yellow onion

1 head of garlic

2 TB olive oil

1 large can of baked beans

2 large cans of chili beans in sauce

1 small can of white beans

1 large can stewed tomatoes

1 large can tomato paste

1 pork shoulder

1 lb beef stew meat

1 bunch cilantro

1 TB chili seasoning

2 green bell peppers

1 red bell pepper

1 pablano pepper

Tabasco Chipotle sauce to taste

Preheat olive oil in large stock pan. Add celery, onion and garlic and cook until onion in translucent – 8-10 minutes.

Add green, red and pablano pepper and cook an additional 5 minutes. Add baked beans, chili beans, tomatoes and tomato paste.

To prepare meat:

Smoke stew meat for 1 hour and add to chili mix.

Smoke pork shoulder for 8-10 hours until the meat falls off the bone. Shred pork and add to chili mixture.

Let chili mix simmer on very low heat for 4 hours. An hour before serving, add cilantro and chipotle sauce.