Full.

Its been cold and wet lately and as a direct result I've been craving chili. Now I love chili with beans, but taxlady is not very fond of beans. Besides, they're high carb. Even soy beans (which I've bought, but not yet tried) are not that low carb.

So, tonight I cooked up a Texas Red Chili which is beanless. I made a few modifications to the original recipe, and I'm likely to make a few more as I tinker, but I think it was very satisfactory. Enough food was made for three people and although it wasn't exactly low carb either (at 80 carbs total), it was a fair bit lower than any chili with beans that I've ever made. Besides some of the obvious ways to reduce the total carbs were not tried this time around as I wanted to know what the base recipe gave in terms of taste.

My only complaint was the time it took. At 4:00 pm I walked to the health-food store to pick up some garlic because we were almost out. I started cooking when I got back and the food wasn't ready until almost 9:00 pm. Of course, having to simmer it for 90 to 120 minutes accounts for a good deal of that time.

So, now I'm sitting here full, with my chili craving pretty much sated for now, drinking a glass of wine. Life is good.