{"id":709,"date":"2008-08-10T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:30","slug":"are-we-hot-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Are we hot yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Who in their right mind makes chili in the middle of summer?<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Me.<\/p>\n

I’ve been looking for an excuse to make <\/span>this recipe<\/span><\/a> for a while, but it didn’t turn up until today. The peppers were cheap at the market and there’s still those sweet onions I <\/span>plucked from the dirt<\/span><\/a> a couple weeks ago, so all I really needed to buy was some chicken to roast and shredded cheese to drown everything in.<\/p>\n

Why, BTW, is chicken so expensive? $13.00 for 4 split breasts… jeez. Good thing I don’t eat meat very often; I could hardly afford it.<\/p>\n

Anyway… this chili is nice; not a traditional spicy chili, but something lighter and sweeter. I added some kidney beans and served it with rice… and had an avocado on the side. Delicious.<\/p>\n

I like hot stuff, but traditional chili can easily end up tasting like dirt if you’re not careful with the spices. I usually make something like <\/span>Cincinnati-style chili<\/span><\/a>, sweetened with cinnamon and served over spaghetti. That’s probably my favorite way to have it. <\/span>Susan<\/span><\/a> keeps promising me an authentic recipe. Hint, hint!<\/p>\n

While I’ve sort of veered away the last two weeks from the intent of <\/span>Vicki’s<\/span><\/a> Saturday Shopping Challenge, a good by-product is that I’m paying a bit more attention to what I spend and I’m actually spending some time in the kitchen on weekends. Generally, I’d rather do anything besides cook!<\/p>\n

So… what was on the menu for you tonight?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who in their right mind makes chili in the middle of summer? \ud83d\ude09 Me. I’ve been looking for an excuse to make this recipe for a while, but it didn’t turn up until today. The peppers were cheap at the market and there’s still those sweet onions I plucked from the dirt a couple weeks … Continue reading Are we hot yet?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}