I wanted chili tonight for dinner but I had never made chili from scratch. I whipped up a pot of this and liked it so much I thought I’d write the recipe down.

2 cans Pinto Beans
2 cans Navy Beans
1 Can Kidney Beans
1 pound beef
2 red onions
1 jalapeño pepper
2 large cans diced tomato
1 green pepper

2 T. corn meal
1 T. flour
5 T. chilli powder
1 T. cumin
1/4 cup dried onion
2 T. dried garlic
2 T. powered beef bullion
1 T dried red pepper
some salt
a few dashes of Tabasco

I put it together the regular way. Brown the beef, drain it. Cut up the onions and other stuff and add that to the beef. A few dashes of Tabasco, cook for a bit. Add the rest of the stuff and cook it for a few hours. Pretty simple.

I like using a little dried onion because I think it ads a bit of kick. You can do without it. The salt can be omitted as well depending on the beef bullion (some contains a fair amount of salt).

Dump the mess in a bowl, top it with cheese if you like, eat.

So there you go. If you try it let me know what you think.

P.S. I don’t know who the guy eating chili is. I just found it on google and thought it was funny.

Today I picked up a copy of Pandorum in the discount Blu-ray bin. I’ve seen the DVD cover before but didn’t give it much thought or knew what it was about. I scan the back cover. It reads;

“It’s pitch black on an abandoned ship 500 miles from earth. For crew members Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) and Lt. Payton (Dennis Quaid) an unflinching vision of terror is about to be unleashed.”

“500 miles from earth” puts that ship about twice the distance from earth as the International Space Station. So it is a movie about a ship in earth’s orbit?

Nope.

After watching it I find its a movie about a ship in deep space on a 123 year mission going towards another earth-like planet.

Oops. I guess they mean 500 really long space miles.

Other than that, the movie was about as intelligent. For a sci-fi horror flick it wasn’t bad I guess. Pretty basic stuff. A couple of nice twists but not good enough to turn it from “meh” to “wow”. Well worth the couple bucks in the discount movie bin though.

ORCHARD, Texas – A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher. School officials in Brazos County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools.

Link to Article

It goes on to say “Jack Ellis, the superintendent for Brazos Independent School District, declined an on-camera interview. But he said the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned “minimal nutrition” foods.”

Her detention is to be separated from other students during lunch and recess through Friday.

Interesting.

I wondered what her school lunch options were? What kind of meals did the school district provide for her?

It just so happens they provide their school lunch menu on-line.

Monday April 5th
Breakfast – Pop Tarts.
Lunch – Corn Dog, Mixed veg, Mac and Cheese, fruit.

Wednesday April 14th
Breakfast – Breakfast taco
Lunch – Soft Taco, Salad, Corn, Fruit and Rice Krispy

Other breakfast items were Blueberry muffin, Pancake wrap, and Breakfast pizza. Other lunch items were Sausage pizza, Fish nuggets and fries, Chicken Nuggets, and something called a “Crispito”. You can find their lunch menu here.

I for one am glad they took away this little girl’s Jolly Rancher, stuffed a Pop Tart in her mouth, and made her sit in the corner and eat it all by herself. That will teach her a valuable lesson on nutrition she will carry with her for a lifetime.

Good for you Brazos Elementary School…

…you fucking retards.