We'll this is a nice find

[susandennis]

I love chili - I like it with beef and beans topped with cheese and chopped onions and a healthy dollop of sour cream. Chili isn't hard to make, it's just a PIA to get all the stuff and do it so I don't.

This morning, at Trader Joe's they had an end cap of corn bread crisps and cans of chili - turkey chili - no thanks.



I wandered around the store and found the chili section and, sure enough, they had real chili in cans - not the turkey stuff.



So I got each. And just gave it a trial run.

I put half the can in a bowl and topped it with a bunch of grated cheese. I heated that up until the chili was hot and the cheese was melted. Then I pulled a few chopped onions out of the freezer and dolloped out the sour cream. Easy peasy and OMG... it worked!!! Tasty!!

The corn bread crisps were meh - Fritos would have been better but I'm very excited about having good chili in cans on the shelf. Generally, I make finds like this at the end of a season or in the wrong seasons and then forget. Sorry for peop who have no Trader Joe's.

Chili was eaten watching a 48 Hours episode on the kidnapping of kids from Chowchilla that happened in the early 70's. I remember it so clearly and always wondered that happened to those kids after. Fascinating.

Comments

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I have been craving canned chilli and Fritos in THE worst way

[susandennis]

it seems to me that i never 'kinda' want chili. i'm always ready to kill for it or 'eh?' but, of course, now i have half a can in the fridge with no fritos. This is a problem.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

A serious problem!

[colestainedpage.livejournal.com]

Our favorite crunchy to add to chili is Chili-Cheese Fritos instead of the plain ones.

[susandennis]

ohhhhh nice!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I always prefer chili with no beans, I don't even know if Trader Joe makes a no bean canned chili. I'm already kind of annoyed they stopped making canned clam chowder.

[letmesaythis.livejournal.com]

I picked up some refrigerated chili over the weekend at Wolff's Apple House (https://wolffsapplehouse.com/). It's a local business owned by the family of my freshman year roommate. I went there once while we were in college and last weekend's visit was the first time I was there in maybe 35 years. I'm going to have that chili for lunch tomorrow now that you've reminded me that I bought it!

Aldi carried cornbread crisps last year and I loved them. My initial response to them was very 'meh' but as I continued to eat them they grew on me big time. I was sorry to see them go. They were sweet-ish and they also had jalapeno flavored crisps too, but I never even bothered to try them out. Since Trader Joe's is carrying them again perhaps they'll return to Aldi too. Fingers crossed.