Sunday Night

Veggie Chile:

I was making this for friends coming to dinner and also wanted it to last as leftovers, so this makes a lot of food. It worked really well for our awesome evening.

So I don't measure, drank a lot that night and I am remembering a few days later, but its chile, it's flexible.

1 yellow onion diced

5 stalks of celery (good way to get more veggies in) diced

6 cloves of garlic sliced

1 poblano pepper (it needed more though)

Canola oil to cover bottom of big soup pot

cook until onion is getting translucent

add

2 24 oz cans kidney beans (drained and rinsed)

1 24 oz can black beans

2 28 oz cans fire roasted diced tomatoes

then add spices (I spice by grabbing everything in the drawer)

2-3 tbls chile powder

paprika

salt

pepper

garlic powder

then stir in some peanut butter (optional, Chris insists that we have to follow his mother's way... I thought it was a bit weird, but tasted fine) and 1 smallish can of corn.

secret ingredient is just a few teaspoons of roasted sesame oil. it has a wonderfully warm dark flavor that just finishes soups so nicely.

Serve with cheese and rice. Then drink lots of beer and wine, go to an awesome concert and hang out with good friends and beautiful women to have an unforgettable evening.