Sucklebusters Chili Powder

Postby **tex_toby** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:32 pm

My wife Krista and I cooked in a local backyard style chili cookoff a month or so ago and took 6th place out of 35 teams. I snapped this pic of her adding the Sucklebusters Chili Powder in. Mighty tasty stuff. Thanks, Gator!

tex

Postby **Gator** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:44 pm

Hey thanks for the post Tex, we gotta work you guys up to first next time!!!

I have a few secrets (that are not on the label) if you are using my recipe. :wink:

JamesB · Postby **JamesB** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:08 pm

Have yet to try the Chili powder, but your wife looks like a keeper!

Postby **Papa Tom** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:17 pm

OMG Tex and she can cook too!!!!!! :shock:

Hey congrats on the placing good show.

Postby **tex_toby** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:30 pm

Gator wrote:Hey thanks for the post Tex, we gotta work you guys up to first next time!!!

I have a few secrets (that are not on the label) if you are using my recipe.

Hey Gator....well, we came up with a recipe about 3 years ago and have done really well with it. We cook in 3-4 cookoffs a year and have placed in the top three or won about a third of the time. We have NEVER done bad, but lately we've been stuck just a bit further out than we want. I'm always up for some secrets if you are willing to share! :wink:

tex

Postby **tex_toby** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:33 pm

James/PT - yea, I married well out of my league! :lol:

I'm still not sure how I pulled that one off. As for her cooking - well, I blame her for my being about 50#'s overweight! She's an excellent cook!

tex

Postby **Gator** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:53 pm

Most of my secrets are on the label, but a few things options as it relates to my printed recipe...

- I always use the stock from canned beans, 1 can per pound of meat. I use kidney and pintos and pour in the stock even if I dont use the beans later on.

- To beef up my recipe I add beef stock instead of water.

- I dice (super fine) all my veggies and let them melt away as they cook. The more veggies the better on my recipe. Just allow plenty of cook time.

- A couple of tablespoons of your favorite pepper sauce at the end always helps.

- Add 1 tbsp of mustard per 2 lbs of meat.

Good luck, sounds like you got a winning recipe already!

mgwerks · Postby **mgwerks** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:21 pm

Looks might cold at that cookout, Tex. Not often you get to see someone shielded from the wind, but wearing gloves to cook chili! Good on you two for toughing it out. Look forward to seeing those trophies pile up now that Sucklebusters spices are on your team.

Postby **tex_toby** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:09 am

mgwerks wrote:Looks might cold at that cookout, Tex. Not often you get to see someone shielded from the wind, but wearing gloves to cook chili! Good on you two for toughing it out. Look forward to seeing those trophies pile up now that Sucklebusters spices are on your team.

That was a really cold and windy day. The actual temps were right around freezing, but the wind was blowing about 25mph too, so the wind chill was down in the teens. We had set up the awning the night before in anticipation of the cold front blowing through in the night, but intentionally left the walls off so it wouldn't take flight. That morning, it was downright miserable until we got the walls put on. After that, it wasn't too bad. We just didn't mingle much that day!

Not sure if you guys are familiar with Brian Burns or Tommy Alverson, but they both played that day at the cookoff. They are both excellent Texas Country Music artists if you are into that sort of thing.

tex

honu41 · Postby **honu41** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:36 am

Good job TT and Krista...

I have never been good at makin' chili but being on this forum I think it is time to go for it! Congrats and take care...

a hui hou,

Stan41 · Postby **Stan41** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:39 am

Looks like you've got a lot going for you; A good Chili recipe and a wife that looks like Krista and will help cook!
Stan41

Postby **DATsBBQ** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:00 am

tex_toby wrote:James/PT - yea, I married well out of my league! I'm still not sure how I pulled that one off. As for her cooking - well, I blame her for my being about 50#'s overweight! She's an excellent cook!

tex

Wish I could claim the same thing :shock:

mgwerks · Postby **mgwerks** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:46 am

tex_toby wrote:Not sure if you guys are familiar with Brian Burns or Tommy Alverson, but they both played that day at the cookoff. They are both excellent Texas Country Music artists if you are into that sort of thing.

tex

Got introduced to them through Gary P. Nunn and Larry Joe Taylor, actually. Really like Tommy's stuff. Don't forget about Guy Clark!

DJ · Postby DJ » Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:28 pm

Well, what can I say......have to agree with everyone here....good luck with movin up the ladder with your chili, but yur pretty near the top with yur helper!!!
dj

bowhnter · Postby **bowhnter** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:46 pm

Gator wrote:- To beef up my recipe I add beef stock instead of water.

-- Add 1 tbsp of mustard per 2 lbs of meat.

I knewforgot something this past weekend. The Beef stock :oops:

I didn't look at any recipe, but couldn't figure out what I forgot.

Never tried the mustard, will have to next time!

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