Well this weekend, with no football on TV, there was little left for me to do. So I decided to practice my chili for Super Bowl Sunday. After destroying the kitchen, I created quite a wonderful chili recipe that even my fiancee enjoyed.

Practice Chili
Ingredients:
2 1/2 lbs Pork Shoulder (cubed)
2 1/2 lbs Stew Beef (cubed)
2 Large Spanish Onions
1 28oz Can Diced Tomatoes
1 can tomato paste (small can)
2 Cans Pinto Beans (rinsed)
Minced Garlic (add what you like)
2 Cans Kidney Beans (rinsed)
5 Cups Chicken Broth
Chili Seasoning Powder
Cumin
Salt & Pepper
Corn Oil

First, season the meat with the salt and pepper and sear in the corn oil in small batches in a large pot.
Once all the meat has been seared, place meat in bowl off to the side. Keep remaining oil and saute onions & garlic until golden. Then add in meat and accumulated juices.

In the meantime, bring your 5 cups chicken broth to a boil, add in Chili seasoning and cumin to taste, this will ensure your spices get properly mixed. Add diced tomatoes to chicken broth and boil while stiring for another 5 minutes.
Then add your liquid mixture to the meat, stiring carefully.
Add rinsed beans, stir, cover and let simmer for 1 hour. Add tomatoe paste if the sauce is too thin.

Ingredients
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped(1 1/2 cups)
2 large garlic cloves, crushed
3/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast
3 teaspoons cumin
1 tablespoon fresh oregano or
2 teaspoons dried
1 (15.5-ounce) can great northern beans (1 1/2 cups)
3/4 cup fat-free, low-salt canned chicken broth
2 medium jalapeño peppers, seeded and chopped
Several drops hot pepper sauce
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Toppings
1 medium red bell pepper, diced ( 1/2 cup)
4 scallions, sliced
2 tablespoons grated Monterey Jack cheese

Heat oil in nonstick skillet. Add onion and sauté 5 minutes. Do not brown. Add the garlic and sauté 3 minutes. Remove fat from chicken and cut into thin strips, about 1/2 inch by

2 inches. Add to pan with cumin and oregano. Sauté 2 minutes. Drain and rinse beans. Add to pan with chicken broth and jalapeño peppers. Cook gently for 3 minutes or until sauce begins to thicken. Add hot pepper sauce and blend well. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place bell pepper,

scallions and cheese in small bowls. Serve chili over rice and pass the toppings. Makes 2 servings.

Per serving: 582 calories; 61 g protein; 54 g carbohydrate; 14 g fat; 21 percent of calories as fat; 13.7 g fiber; 121 mg cholesterol; 911 mg sodium.

Buffalo chicken snack perfect for Super Bowl

Great article about the creator of the world’s most famous and the original wing sauce: Anchor Bar Wing Sauce.

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January 19th , 2005

The new MILD version of Mad Anthony’s Hot Sauce has arrived! It has the same incredible flavor as the original, but only half the heat. Also new, is the truly great tasting Mad Anthony’s Fiery Mustard Sauce. It’s great on everything from sausages and hot dogs to hamburgers and ham sandwiches.

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We have all heard of the saying “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” Well, this old adage has been revamped by some parents into “Spare the hot sauce and spoil the child” as many parents are using this fiery liquid to punish their unruly children.

The practice has been named hot saucing by psychologists and entails a parent prying open a child’s mouth each time their child is unruly, and pouring hot sauce on the child’s tongue, letting it burn until the little one confesses their lies or apologizes for acting up.

In most cases, hot saucing is generally used in cases where a child misbehaved using their mouths. Examples include talking back to adults, lying, biting, swearing, refusing to eat, or spitting on people. Research shows that the practice has roots in Southern culture and has recently begun to spread to other regions of the country.

The practice has become so widespread, that some childcare officials are coming forward to warn parents about the potential dangers of punishing a child in this manner. In the most extreme cases, specialists say hot saucing may cause a child physical harm, trigger unknown allergies, or possibly lead to a choking death.

“Hot sauce can burn a child’s esophagus and cause the tongue to swell, making it a potential choking hazard,” said family therapist Carleton Kendrick to The Washington Post.

Kendrick said parents who try to rationalize hot saucing by saying things like they only use small amounts to punish their children, are still wrong and should stop. “There are many different kinds of hot sauce on the market, and parents who say they know the dilution to use so it won’t sting, or say they only use one drop, are wrong,” he said. “It is done because it hurts, it stings, it burns, and it makes you nauseous.”

Kendrick added, “There is no room for pain and humiliation and fear in disciplining healthy children. I think it is a rather barbaric practice to say the least.”

Despite condemnation from some childcare advocates, some very prominent supporters of hot saucing have come forward and are speaking publicly in favor of parents using the tactic to punish a child. Actress Lisa Welchel, star of the 1980s sitcom “Facts of Life,” says she regularly uses hot saucing on her children. In an interview earlier this year with ABC’s Good Morning America, Welchel, now a stay at home mom, defended the practice. “For lying or other offenses of the tongue, I spank my kids tongue. I put a tiny dab of hot sauce on my finger and dab it onto my child’s tongue,” she said. “It stings for a while, but it abates. It is the memory that lingers…so the next time they may actually have some self-control and stop before they lie or bite or something like that.” Continued…

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Joe Perry likes to talk, but the 54-year-old guitarist for Aerosmith doesn’t like to smile.

Why the long face? After all, Aerosmith’s latest album of juiced-up blues tunes has the goofy title “Honkin’ on Bobo.” And the whole reason Perry was visiting Manhattan’s Hard Rock Cafe recently was to promote the latest flavor of his Rock Your World hot sauce, called Mango Peach Tango. But in conversation with Newsday’s Rafer Guzmán, the guitarist never once cracked a grin. And when asked about Aerosmith’s Metallica-style stint in group therapy years ago, he gave a short reply before ending the interview.

Was it something we said?

How did a guy from Boston get involved in hot sauce? Shouldn’t you be doing, like, baked beans?

I’m from Portuguese-Italian descent, and I come from first-generation. So exotic food is in my blood. And in the traveling I do, I’ve been exposed to all kinds of food. Not only do you get to try a lot of exotic food, you also get to try a lot of crappy, bland food. So the light goes off, and you start bringing hot sauce with you.

You actually bring it on tour?

And bringing a lot. Our dressing room – usually there’s 20 bottles in the middle of the table. And what I found myself doing was mixing a lot of them together to try to get something I really liked. And I had a relationship with David Ashley, who’s got Ashley Food Companies [which also produces sauces for Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead]. I asked him for advice, and we decided to go in partners.

So the new sauce is called Mango Peach Tango. Won’t people confuse you with Ted Nugent? [Pause] You know, “Wango Tango”?

Well, I don’t know what he’s got going on with “Wango Tango,” but Mango Peach Tango, the whole thing is the blend of the two fruits with the spice. The “Tango” being the spicy part.

You know, using rock and roll to sell products used to be uncool. What happened to that antiestablishment attitude?

The whole thing with our blues connection – I love barbecue, I love the South. The whole thing makes sense to me. But using music to sell products, it’s been done for years. If it’s a really cheesy product and it’s something that’s totally obscure and wrong, then you take issue with it. But for an Aerosmith song to be played during a cool car commercial – I mean, it’s another place where Aerosmith gets its music heard. Kids know “Dream On” because of the Buick ad. How many times have you heard that Led Zeppelin song when you see this cool car, this Cadillac, screaming down the road? I think kids today don’t see that as a downside, because they get their music in so many different places, in video games and commercials.

You have the “Honkin’ on Bobo” album, and you made an appearance in “Lightnin’ in a Bottle” [the blues concert film]. Why is the blues so important to you?

It’s in my subconscious, it gets under my skin. That’s the music that makes me want to pick up a guitar and play. Jazz doesn’t do it; no other kind of music does it. We’re not real blues players, and we never will be. But you can learn from it and assimilate it and at least know the form. We can have fun playing the music – as we hear it – and morphing into our band of suburban white guys having fun and playing rock and roll. We pay our respects and pay homage and try not to offend anyone by putting our own spin on it.

For a young kid who doesn’t know the blues, where would be a good place to start?

Mississippi Fred McDowell – you’ll hear a lot of Zeppelin and Stones in there. He was a big influence on those guys. And, of course, Muddy Waters. And Johnny Winter was another that really could capture the black blues and make it accessible, so it didn’t sound like old man’s music. And, of course, Robert Johnson and Son House, to get that classic, one-guy-playing kind of thing. But to get to the rocked-out stuff, you want Slim Harpo, Fats Domino, Muddy Waters and Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Have you seen Metallica’s movie ["Some Kind of Monster"]? It was the first time most people saw a band going through group therapy, but Aerosmith did that years ago. What was that process like?

It’s in the book [1999's "Walk This Way," by Stephen Davis and Aerosmith]. You have a choice: You can either break up your band, or you can deal with it. If more bands would do that, we’d have more great music on the planet. I haven’t seen that movie, because I’ve seen our movie. But I do admire their courage, because it’s really hard to do.