{"id":17348,"date":"2014-01-27T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=17348"},"modified":"2014-01-27T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T05:42:15","slug":"chili-w-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/27\/chili-w-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"SoupPalooza 2014: Chili w\/ Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final Week of SoupPalooza 2014! \u00a0Here on the Monday edition of the At Home w\/ GCH<\/strong> blog, we have celebrated with four different soup recipes: Mushroom Soup with Wild Rice<\/a>, Baked Potato Soup<\/a>, Turkey Veggie Soup<\/a>, and today’s recipe, a Chili w\/ Veggies. \u00a0Each recipe a completely different ‘style’ soup than the next! \u00a0From Mr. Hayden and I, we hope you have enjoyed the variety…He certainly has!<\/p>\n

This week’s recipe was inspired by a suggestion from our Dana Kim in her recent post ing of a Cabbage and Pineapple Slaw recipe<\/a>. \u00a0(Boy, was that good!) \u00a0She hinted at a recipe for a spicy soup or chili. \u00a0So, I prepared BOTH her recipe along with mine…here y’go! \u00a0\"2014-01-25<\/a><\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

2# ground beef (or turkey)
\n2-3 tablespoons olive oil
\n1 medium-sized sweet onion, chopped
\n1 large red bell pepper, chopped
\n4-5 ounces Baby Bella mushrooms, chopped1 medium-sized sweet onion, chopped
\n3 tablespoons chopped garlic (I use jarred)
\n1-28ounce can crushed tomatoes
\n1-15 ounce can dark red kidney beans, rinsed
\n1-15 ounce can black beans, rinsed
\n1 package taco seasoning (* see below for ‘homemade’ seasoning recipe)
\n1-2 cups frozen corn, defrosted
\nOptional toppings: sour cream, shredded cheese, chopped avocado, salsa<\/p>\n

Directions<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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  • Saute the ground meat \u2018til all the pink is cooked out.\u00a0 Drain away the excess liquid and set the cooked meat aside.<\/li>\n
  • In the same pan, add 2 tablespoons olive oil to heat over medium heat; add the chopped onion and mushrooms.\u00a0 Saute for 5-6 minutes.<\/li>\n
  • Add in the chopped bell pepper; stir well.\u00a0 Saute the veggies for approximately 6-7 minutes \u2018til just beginning to get slightly brown.<\/li>\n
  • Lower heat and add chopped garlic.\u00a0 Stir constantly for 1 additional minute.<\/li>\n
  • Increase heat to medium-high, pour in the chopped tomatoes and the taco seasoning mix.\u00a0 Stir.<\/li>\n
  • Finally add back the cooked meat as well as the beans; stir well \u2018til all is combined.<\/li>\n
  • Bring just to a boil; and lower heat so the mixture is gently simmering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Homemade Taco Seasoning Mix<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1\/4 cup chili powder
    \n3 tablespoons dried minced onion
    \n1 tablespoon garlic powder
    \n1+1\/2 teaspoons salt (optional, I do not include it)
    \n2 teaspoons dried oregano
    \n2 teaspoons ground cumin
    \n1 teaspoon ground chipotle pepper
    \n2 teaspoons paprika
    \n1 teaspoon black pepper
    \n\u00bd teaspoon cayenne pepper
    \n1\/3 cup cornstarch<\/p>\n

    Place all ingredients in a small glass jar; shake really well \u2018til all ingredients appear to be evenly distributed.\u00a0 (To substitute for the mix that comes in a yellow package: use 3 tablespoons of mix and 1\/3 cup water for each pound of meat.)<\/p>\n

    \u2665\u00a0 \u2665\u00a0 \u2665\u00a0 \u2665\u00a0 \u2665<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    God loves you<\/strong>! \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(Don\u2019t\u00a0ever<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>forget that!)<\/p>\n

    \u2665<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0coleen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Final Week of SoupPalooza 2014! \u00a0Here on the Monday edition of the At Home w\/ GCH blog, we have celebrated with four different soup recipes: Mushroom Soup with Wild Rice, Baked Potato Soup, Turkey Veggie Soup, and today’s recipe, a Chili w\/ Veggies. \u00a0Each recipe a completely different ‘style’ soup than the next! \u00a0From Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[3038,5229,235,1287,425,5232,1311,5231,1410,5230],"class_list":["post-17348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home-with-gch","tag-at-home-w-gch","tag-chili","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-homemade-taco-seasoning-recipe","tag-national-soup-month","tag-pineapple-coleslaw","tag-souppalooza","tag-veggie-chili","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2014-01-25-22.54.47.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4vO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17353,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions\/17353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}