I made chili for breakfast today. To be exact, 3 lbs of chili...yup 1 lb bison, 1 lb pork and 1 lb tomatoes, 3 lbs of chili. What? I was hungry!...Actually I just have two exams this week and want lots and lots of leftovers!
People usually look at me funny when I talk about all of the delicious food I make for breakfast. I probably would have done the same thing a year ago, but then I met my fabulous nutritionist Sarah Philipp at Abundelicious and she changed my world...or at least my breakfasts. Basically I swapped my breakfasts and my dinners and now eat super big super yummy breakfasts and super small super early dinners. The goal is to be done eating by 6 so I go to bed with all of my food digested which is a lot easier on my recovering celiac belly. I thought it was really hard and weird at first but after the first week it seems completely natural. It's stopped my late night cravings and snacking, and I'm no longer ravenous by noon (I can easily go from breakfast at 9 straight through my 2:30 class without a problem). Plus it's super nice when, on those rare occasions, I'm on a serious role on a problem set some evening to not have to stop and prepare a big meal, or eat some awful prepared frozen dinner like many of my classmates.
Anyway, back to my chili. It was wonderful, just the right amount of kick and just the right amount of leftovers! As I said I used a pound of bison, a pound of pork (I browned my meat in leftover bacon grease...yum). I added a can 14.5 oz of Muir Glen fire roasted organic tomatoes, a 6 oz can of Muir Glen tomato paste, (and a 6 oz can of water), half of a roasted red pepper (I'll save the other half for my tacos later this week...not a lot of variety but tacos and chili are easy to make and provide great leftovers). Seasoned with a packet of Simply Organic hot chili mix (I know the first ingredient brown rice flour isn't exactly primal, but I had it and needed to use it...I'll start working on my own chili mix soon), in addition I added some chili powder, paprika, and cumin, and topped it all off with some local, raw, organic sharp cheddar from the farmers market!
Since I have lots of chili leftovers (and cakies from yesterday) I probably won't be cooking much more this week until after I'm done with my exams, unless I need to
Yeah - it's Friday - you made it! Thank you for sharing all of this yummy goodness!
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