Momma's Chili

With the cool weather setting in, I can't help but pull out all my favorite soup recipes and when I want comfort food to warm me up, I can't do much better than my mom's wonderful chili recipe. She usually served it up with fresh cornbread, but I made homemade biscuits instead (find the recipe here), and boy were they tasty! (As a side-note: I also used that biscuit recipe for a biscuits and gravy breakfast and the biscuits were solid enough to handle the thick gravy while still managing to be fluffy.)



Mom gave me a recipe for the chili, but nowadays I tend to just throw it all in the pot and guess at quantities. I think it tastes better that way. With that in mind, I will tell you my guesstimate on the ingredients:

2 large cans of tomato juice
Red/kidney beans (mom's recipe used dried beans that were soaked, but I always cheat with 3 rinsed cans of beans instead)
About equal quantities ( 2-4 tbsp, to taste) of the following spices: cumin, curry powder, garlic powder (or fresh garlic), sugar, chili powder (although I tend to add a lot more of this), salt to taste
1 lb ground beef, cooked with 1 chopped onion

Add it all together on the stove and cook for about an hour, give or take. If you use the canned beans I recommend waiting to add them until halfway through.