#would’ve tried to make it spicier but I’m the only person I know irl who likes spicy and I did NOT wanna have to finish the post by myself

[theshadowrealmitself]

So! I tried to follow this recipe https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/foodisadelight/711063743408308224 that @foodisadelight sent me (thank you again)

However!! I am very very bad at following recipes on the first try! Very bad! It’s a combination of stressfully trying to follow recipe for the first time + not being able to stop the desire to add in more ingredients, so this is what I ended up doing:

Started browning the meat, realized I was supposed to cook the onions first in oil, panicked and added in the onions (not even the full amount of onion I needed btw, cause I don’t like onion so I only added in the tiniest bit), continued browning the meat on low to give the onions time to catch up

Didn’t buy beef broth, instead boiled some beef bouillon in 1 and 1/4 cup of water (how much bouillon powder? No clue, didn’t measure, a habit I picked up for this recipe only for some reason)

Cut up one red bell pepper and one green bell pepper, into super super tiny bits so I didn’t have to deal with the texture issue of biting into chunks later on (did have to deal with the texture issue of tiny bits of bell pepper getting stuck to my hands as well as the awful feeling of juice drying on them 😭)

Chopped up a poblano pepper super finely as well (I am aware that’s not anywhere in the original recipe but I couldn’t help it)

Also bought a small container of already chopped hatch peppers

“Measured” out the spices (didn’t use a single measuring utensil except for my heart) (also added in a few spices that weren’t in the original recipe like dried basil leaves and crushed rosemary)

Realized I bought the wrong size can of tomato sauce, scraped out about half for the chili

Bought red kidney beans and pinto beans

And fresh cilantro

Put in half the ingredients in the rice cooker, realized I didn’t see how many people this is going to serve, it does not fit in the pot, so I keep the rice cooker on “warm” for those ingredients while I clean out the big pot for my stove top

Add in the second half of the ingredients, like the diced stuff and half of each can of beans, to the big pot, slowly get the first half of the ingredients out of the rice cooker

Remember that this pot is the one without a fitting lid

Cry

Put on the really large lid and hope for the best

And finally! Sit on the floor and figure out if I’m really okay with going to sleep with something still simmering on the stove? (Original plan was to ignore recipe’s cook time and simmer it overnight so I started cooking this when it was already late and now it’s even later and I’m tired), still haven’t come to a decision

(I swear to god I’m a decent cook, I’m just always really bad at my first time doing new recipes 😭😭)

Edit: after some googling I have decided to move it to a crockpot so I can sleep, I really hope it turns out well because it actually smells fantastic rn