[red-beard]

My wife makes a "red sauce" by boiling the dried red/purple peppers with garlic. This is then ground and strained. The red sauce can be mixed with potatos, served over corn tortillas with cheese (Enchiladas) or cooked with beef to make a basic chili. The stuff is great! I take her sauce and make chili by adding beef and pressure cooking, and then throwing in a bit of beef rib flavor (think bullion powder, but a lot less salt).

My "quick" chili involves ground beef, garlic, onions, tons of chili powder and cumin and beef bullion and a bit of tomato paste. My better chili is cubed beef cooked with the onions and garlic, then beer, chili powder and cumin and pressure cooking (for quick) or a long slow simmer. The flavor is adjusted with a bit of the beef rib flavor, bullion and, depending on the color, a bit of the tomato paste.

I've been considering using my wife's sauce with some cumin for my chili...