Chili!

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It's Chili Sunday over here at Casa Pinback! What's your TAKE?

[uruzrune]

Chili without beans >>> chili with beans

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We'll have a followup poll about preferred recipes. For now, assume we're talking about your preferred chili.

[uruzrune]

I already voted, you can't influence me!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Look, sure, I'll eat it whenever but when the weather gets colder, that's when chili with an i is able to truly shine.

You got a "go to" recipe yer using at the moment, Pinner?

[Billy Mays]

that's when chili with an i...

Wait, what other kind of chili is there?

[Tdarcos]

It's Chili Sunday over here at Casa Pinback! What's your TAKE?

I love chili. I'll TAKE two bowls. Do me a favor and mail them to me in a sealed package so it doesn't leak. I'll TAKE it at:

Paul Robinson
550 S. Carlin Springs Rd #550
Arlington VA 22204-1022

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You got a "go to" recipe yer using at the moment, Pinner?

Sure! I've got a family to feed, so I keep it "family friendly" which means mild and with nothing anyone hates, so it goes like this:

2 lbs ground beef
1 large white onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 15oz can tomato sauce
1 15oz can low sodium beef broth
1 can beer
2 cans of your favorite beans, drained and rinsed
Spice mix (just make it up, but generally about 4 T of spices + flour)
- 2 T flour
- 2.5 T chili powder
- 1.5 T cumin
- 1 t sugar
- 1 t paprika
- .5 t cinnamon
- S/P to taste

Brown beef in large pot, maybe with some oil. Drain, put back in pot.
Add onions, stir around until soft.
Add garlic, stir for a minute.
Add spice mix, stir for 30 seconds
Add broth, tomato sauce, beer, bring to simmer
Add beans, return to simmer, simmer uncovered on low for 2-3 hours until done.

Easy-peasy, and works every time.

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AFTER:

[uruzrune]

broken pictures, broken heart

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You have to open them in a new tab because my links are HTTP instead of HTTPS and this place won't inline mixed content.

[uruzrune]

Too much effort.

Also, who doesn't use SSL by default these days?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

You have to open them in a new tab because my links are HTTP instead of HTTPS and this place won't inline mixed content.

When Sousa and I were working on Jay Schilling, we learned that the TADS interpreter won't work if it's pulling a story file from an https site. I had temporarily moved this site to be OK with http connections. Since we are now pulling the game off a separate http site for online play, I can probably move this site back to https. Which... may not help show your images.

Who would have thought people working on web forums and web sites would screw up something like this?

[Tdarcos]

Too much effort.

Also, who doesn't use SSL by default these days?

Those who purchase regular (inexpensive) shared hosting at around $3 a month, purchased for 3 years in advance ($108), sometimes less, sometimes a bit more. Makes hosting for even personal sites affordable as it is very economical. Getting an HTTPS certificate would add about $20 a year, and if the service isn't producing an income, most people won't bother.

When Sousa and I were working on Jay Schilling, we learned that the TADS interpreter won't work if it's pulling a story file from an https site.

Reading HTTP is easy, it simply requires sending and receiving bytes over a TCP port. HTTPS requires an encryption negotiation and some sort of protocol stack to handle decryption. Plus possibly creating a temporary public/private key for the session. A lot of work just to download an interpreted file.

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Getting an HTTPS certificate would add about $20 a year,

Or, you know, $0.

[uruzrune]

Let's Encrypt only works if you trust both the sender and the receiver. On a forum like this, you'd probably want your certificate validated by a trusted third party.

[Jizaboz]

Too much effort.

I agree. The best balance between Pinback's recipe and cup of burger scrapings and whatever from Wendy's in a cup is a more simplistic chili.

-The Jizaboz Chili-

Ingredients:
- 2 pounds ground chuck
- 1 large green pepper chopped up no seeds
- 1 whole large or 2 small onion(s) chopped up
- 1-2 jalapeno or 1-2 habanero peppers chopped up with no seeds (the latter for more heat if you wanna start getting crazy and no kids are present)
- 1 28-30 oz or so canned regular crushed tomatoes (store brand is fine)
- 1 12 oz canned regular diced tomatoes (store brand is fine)
- (optional) 1-2 cloves of crushed garlic. Can substitute a dash of garlic powder
- 1 40 oz can of red kidney beans. I use "New Hannover" brand.
- About 4 cups of old or fresh coffee

Instructions:

1. Cook the 2 pounds of meat with a couple of dashes of salt and black pepper in a skillet or whatever til dark grey. Strain most but not all of the grease.

2. Put the cooked and everything else above into a crock pot. Leave it in there on high for 5 hours then turn it down to low.

Eat whenever!

Also, who doesn't use SSL by default these days?

Too much effort. Especially when you are not serving or sharing sensitive content to begin with. Speaking for everyone that doesn't use their same login here as their bank anyway.

[Jizaboz]

Edit *the cooked - ground chuck

[AArdvark]

Dammit! *Cooked ground chuck is my web bank password. Im doomed.

[uruzrune]

If only there was a way posters could go back and fix their posts if they typo. I guess the technology doesn't exist.

(Yes, I'm going to post this every time editing comes up.)

[Tdarcos]

BEFORE:

Oh god, I TAKE it back, I do not want anything to do with somethuing that looks like that! It looks like he ate it and then gave it back. That's some diseased crap there! That doesn't look like chili, it reminds me of minestrone soup!