Chili Kid Friendly Big Batch Food

AL'S BIG BATCH CHILI

Steps:

• Brown ground beef in a skillet, drain fat off.
• In a 5 quart pot, saute onion, celery, and green pepper until tender.
• Add ground beef back in pot and add tomatoes with puree. Add water.
• Add seasonings chili pepper and garlic power, onion power, salt and pepper.
• Cook 2 hours until heated though.
• Add mushrooms and kidney beans the last 30 minutes of cooking and heat though. Serve.
• Notes: You can add hot peppers to the chili if you want to, he does. You can also add crushed tomatoes without puree, it will be more like a soup. My husband just uses crushed tomatoes with juice. This above is more thicker but still good.

CUCUMBER RELISH -- BIG BATCH

Steps:

• Put cleaned and trimmed cucumbers, onions and celery through a grinder or food processor.
• Sprinkle with kosher salt and let stand overnight.
• Next day drain well. (I squeeze out the extra liquid using a tea towel.)
• Combine ground vegetables with 5 cups of the vinegar, sugar, turmeric, celery seed, red and green peppers.
• In a large pot bring mixture to the boil for 20 minutes.
• Mix flour with remaining 1 cup vinegar and add this mixture to the pot.
• Boil for a few minutes constantly mixing until thickened.
• Put up relish in sterile jars and seal as per jar instructions.

CHILI, KID FRIENDLY, BIG BATCH

Steps:

• Cook hamburger with peppers, celery and onions. Once hamburger is cooked put into colander and rinse off with hot water to remove fat.
• Put meat mixture into the pot again, add remaining ingredients.
• Bring to a simmer and cook until vegetables are soft.
• Note: If you want you can add 4 bay leaves also. Can use a mixture of beans also.
• Freezes beautifully.