I had planned to make a big pot of chili over the weekend but never got around to it. Tonight I had a meeting after work, but I came home and frantically tried to throw one together. It was going to be huge – meat, onion, two cans of beans and three cans of tomatoes.
I was in such a rush, I just opened cans and dumped the contents in, not even bothering to pry back the lid.
Ooooopen/dump: beans!
Ooooopen/dump: tomatoes!
Ooooopen/dump: beans!
Ooooopen/dump: tomatoes!
Ooooopen/dump: tomato water! Er, a lot of tomato water! Where the heck are the tomatoes oh dang it that’s beef broth.
Dang. Dangdangdang. Now I had a watery pot of pre-chili with not enough tomato flavor and extra weird beef flavor. Solution? Ketchup.
Taste?
No.
Not a solution. A very, very terrible addition.
Good thing there’s a big ol’ vat of it. Bleh.