Stagg Chilli

Judith said:

I've considered taking it with me on a short trip but worry that the
bag would burst and I'd end up with a Chilli flavoured sleeping bag!

I must have a look at Lakeland Plastics' (or have they dropped the
"plastics" now?) website and see if there are any boil-in-the-bag type
bags which may be up to the rigours of backpacking.

It's Lakeland Limited now. They do bags like you want

http://makeashorterlink.com/?O5B932F3A

But I don't know how they seal.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

I'm rather partial to Stagg chilli, for those 'can't be arsed with anything
complicated' kind of evenings. I think the silverado version is the best of
the bunch, the dynamite hot one having too much kick and not enough other
flavour for me.

However, many years of cooking chilli eventually led me to settle on the
right spice balance (for me), which you're invited to try. For a pound of
good mince (or whatever alternative you wish), use 3 teaspoons of ground
cumin, two of oregano, one of paprika and one of cayenne. Garlic (one fat
or two ordinary cloves for me) and salt to taste. I sometimes add a teaspoon
of marmite too, if I'm in the mood; it gives a little more depth to the
flavour. Make sure you rinse the kidney beans well, and don't use stock
cubes.

That said, it's Madhur Jaffery's Kashmiri Rogan Josh for me tonight - I've
got meetings tomorrow, so turning up reeking of garlic is probably a bad
idea!

T.

Phil Cook said:

Quoted message said:

I must have a look at Lakeland Plastics' (or have they dropped the
"plastics" now?) website and see if there are any boil-in-the-bag type
bags which may be up to the rigours of backpacking.

It's Lakeland Limited now. They do bags like you want

http://makeashorterlink.com/?O5B932F3A

Aye, that might do the trick. And reseaonably priced at £3.25 for 50.
(Well, reasonable if they're any good).

Quoted message said:

But I don't know how they seal.

Shame they don't give any info but I'll have a look next time I'm in
Chester. (Last time I tried to find Lakeland Limited in Chester, I
ended up in Lakeland which is quite quite different! All frocks and
blouses and stuff. Not me at all!)

Judith

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:11:50 +0000, Peter <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It was nowhere near as good as the chickpea chilli I make.

That sounds good - any chance of the recipe, please? I can reciprocate
with one for a rather nice brown lentil chilli if you want...

Chickpea chilli
===============

All quantities, and size of tins, are entirely variable and depend on
how many people you are feeding, what's in the cupboard and how much
you want to freeze!

Ingredients
-----------
Onion - chopped quite small
Garlic - chopped
Chilli pepper - Chopped. My Mum grows these and freezes them. I use
one chilli and select whatever size suits the required hotness and
quantity. I'm not sure what variety they are, but they're long and
red and you do NOT want to touch them when you chop them! I suppose
chilli powder would do, but I find fresh chilli tastes much fresher
and hotter.
Tin of tomatoes - chopped
Tin of chickpeas - rinsed and drained
Tin of kidney beans - rinsed and drain
(Tin of black-eyed beans or borlotti beans if fancied/required)

Recipe
------
Fry the onion, garlic and chilli pepper. Do not let it brown. Add
the tomato. Heat it through. Add the beans. Stir it all together,
turn up the heat until everything is heated through, then turn it down
and let it simmer for a few minutes. This timing isn't crucial. How
long it simmers depends on how long it takes you to cook the couscous/
pasta etc.

Serve.

I tend to have it with couscous which I add some raisins to. Yum.

Goes well with a glass of water (or Timothy Taylor Landlord!)

Judith
PS This recipe, whilst delicious, may not be suitable for one half of
a couple sharing a small tent. Either you both have it or nobody
does!

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:09:54 +0000, Judith
<[email hidden]> wrote:

| On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:31:15 +0000, Phil Cook
| <[email hidden]> wrote:
|
| >>I must have a look at Lakeland Plastics' (or have they dropped the
| >>"plastics" now?) website and see if there are any boil-in-the-bag type
| >>bags which may be up to the rigours of backpacking.
| >
| >It's Lakeland Limited now. They do bags like you want
| >
| >http://makeashorterlink.com/?O5B932F3A
|
| Aye, that might do the trick. And reseaonably priced at £3.25 for 50.
| (Well, reasonable if they're any good).
|
|
| >But I don't know how they seal.
|
| Shame they don't give any info but I'll have a look next time I'm in
| Chester. (Last time I tried to find Lakeland Limited in Chester, I
| ended up in Lakeland which is quite quite different! All frocks and
| blouses and stuff. Not me at all!)

Have any of the uf+dm people used these, and know how they seal?
I am sure one of us will have bought *everything* from Lakeland at least
once :-)

<crossposted uk.food+drink.misc, and uk.rec.walking>

--
Dave F

Tchaaa!!! Recipes in yooroo!!! whatisthisgoddamworldcomingtoo ????

;-)

Judith... your ress reads interesting, try adding a spoon of oregano
(heaped if you like, its a mild erb, and a somethin like a quarter of a
teaspoon of cumin. If nowt else it'll give you a different flavour...
oh, and a bay leaf.
.....hehe, but you're still missing the "secret incredient" ;-)

On 16 Jan 2005 11:55:58 -0800, "SteveO" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Tchaaa!!! Recipes in yooroo!!! whatisthisgoddamworldcomingtoo ????

Yooroo? A phonetic (Welsh phonemes?!) pronounciation of urw? Wi-erd.

Anyway, please rest assured that I always take a photograph of my
dinner. I also have all my recipes indexed and cross-referenced.

This means that they are On Topic in URW.

Judith
PS Some of those statements are lies.

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

On 16 Jan 2005 11:55:58 -0800, "SteveO" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Tchaaa!!! Recipes in yooroo!!! whatisthisgoddamworldcomingtoo ????

Yooroo? A phonetic (Welsh phonemes?!) pronounciation of urw? Wi-erd.

Anyway, please rest assured that I always take a photograph of my
dinner. I also have all my recipes indexed and cross-referenced.

This means that they are On Topic in URW.

Judith
PS Some of those statements are lies.

but do you have a 10 figure grid ref for the tin of tomatoes?

--
Darren
mail to darren not ng

In article <[email hidden]>, Judith
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:11:50 +0000, Peter <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It was nowhere near as good as the chickpea chilli I make.

That sounds good - any chance of the recipe, please? I can reciprocate
with one for a rather nice brown lentil chilli if you want...

Chickpea chilli
===============

All quantities, and size of tins, are entirely variable and depend on
how many people you are feeding, what's in the cupboard and how much
you want to freeze!

Ingredients
-----------
Onion - chopped quite small
Garlic - chopped
Chilli pepper - Chopped. My Mum grows these and freezes them. I use
one chilli and select whatever size suits the required hotness and
quantity. I'm not sure what variety they are, but they're long and
red and you do NOT want to touch them when you chop them! I suppose
chilli powder would do, but I find fresh chilli tastes much fresher
and hotter.
Tin of tomatoes - chopped
Tin of chickpeas - rinsed and drained
Tin of kidney beans - rinsed and drain
(Tin of black-eyed beans or borlotti beans if fancied/required)

Recipe
------
Fry the onion, garlic and chilli pepper. Do not let it brown. Add
the tomato. Heat it through. Add the beans. Stir it all together,
turn up the heat until everything is heated through, then turn it down
and let it simmer for a few minutes. This timing isn't crucial. How
long it simmers depends on how long it takes you to cook the couscous/
pasta etc.

Serve.

I tend to have it with couscous which I add some raisins to. Yum.

Goes well with a glass of water (or Timothy Taylor Landlord!)

Judith
PS This recipe, whilst delicious, may not be suitable for one half of
a couple sharing a small tent. Either you both have it or nobody
does!

You forgot to mention:

Place 1 toilet roll in the fridge :-)
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:59:19 +0000, Judith
<[email hidden]> wrote:

[...]

Quoted message said:

Anyway, please rest assured that I always take a photograph of my
dinner. I also have all my recipes indexed and cross-referenced.

This means that they are On Topic in URW.

Only if you can find the recipes, though. What navigational method are
you using?

Best wishes,
--
,,
(**)PeeWiglet~~
/ \ / \ pee AT [guessthisbit].co.uk

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:27:05 +0000, Peewiglet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Anyway, please rest assured that I always take a photograph of my
dinner. I also have all my recipes indexed and cross-referenced.

This means that they are On Topic in URW.

Only if you can find the recipes, though. What navigational method are
you using?

Uh-oh. I use "common sense". I have a room called "the kitchen" and
that's where all the eating stuff tends to be - but I haven't got any
Anquet overlays or data. D*mn. That's no good for this ng, is it?

Sorry, I'll try to make up some rules. Also, I'll make sure that I
spend all my time telling you about those rules and make sure I leave
no time to go to the kitchen and eat.

(Hm? Does anyone think I may have had a recent bad experience in this
ng?!)

Judith
Wondering whether to write a TR for today's walk which took less time
than the TR would take to write!

Tesco's brand of big soups are very good at 56p. Nice flavour and IMO
better than Heinz's equivalent.

Norman

Judith said:

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:27:05 +0000, Peewiglet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Anyway, please rest assured that I always take a photograph of my
dinner. I also have all my recipes indexed and cross-referenced.

This means that they are On Topic in URW.

Only if you can find the recipes, though. What navigational method are
you using?

Uh-oh. I use "common sense".

Oh? Funny, I don't think I've read about that one here. Is it
available online?

Quoted message said:

I have a room called "the kitchen" and
that's where all the eating stuff tends to be - but I haven't got any
Anquet overlays or data. D*mn. That's no good for this ng, is it?

Well I don't want to seem kitist, or anything like that, but no... not
really...

<PW shakes little head in horror at the appallingly deficient
condition of Judith's equipment!>

Quoted message said:

Sorry, I'll try to make up some rules. Also, I'll make sure that I
spend all my time telling you about those rules and make sure I leave
no time to go to the kitchen and eat.

Eat?

Oh, right: I remember now. I think it's mentioned on p.17 of the FAQ
🙂

Quoted message said:

(Hm? Does anyone think I may have had a recent bad experience in this
ng?!)

Um.... ??

Quoted message said:

Judith
Wondering whether to write a TR for today's walk which took less time
than the TR would take to write!

Go for it. It's the walk that counts.

Best wishes,
--
,,
(**)PeeWiglet~~
/ \ / \ pee AT [guessthisbit].co.uk

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:21:34 +0000, Peewiglet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Wondering whether to write a TR for today's walk which took less time
than the TR would take to write!

Go for it. It's the walk that counts.

OK, Done it.

Judith said:

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:11:50 +0000, Peter <[email hidden]>
wrote:

Quoted message said:

Chickpea chilli

<snip recipe>
That sounds like a jolly sight quicker than my chilli, which takes an
hour or more. I'm sure that I can talk my nephew out of a fresh chilli
or two. (He grows them.) Hmmm...that reminds me... it's his birthday
in a couple of weeks...

Quoted message said:

I tend to have it with couscous which I add some raisins to. Yum.

Mmmm, that sounds a nice idea - I usually eat my chilli with rice.
Cous cous with raisins will make a change.

Quoted message said:

PS This recipe, whilst delicious, may not be suitable for one half of
a couple sharing a small tent. Either you both have it or nobody
does!

Not an issue for me - I live alone.

Thanks very much, Judith. I'll try that one when the present batch of
brown lentil chilli in the freezer runs out.

(Anyone interested in the recipe or mine can find it at
http://www.allblue.f9.co.uk/chilli.htm. Some readers might find it a
bit on the mild side, but it can be heated up by the obvious
addition.)

Peter.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:41:02 +0000, Peter <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Thanks very much, Judith. I'll try that one when the present batch of
brown lentil chilli in the freezer runs out.

Aren't freezers brill!

Quoted message said:

(Anyone interested in the recipe or mine can find it at
http://www.allblue.f9.co.uk/chilli.htm.

That sounds tasty. A question about the spices, though. Do you end
up picking out the shells of the coriander and cumin while you're
eating your dinner? Or does it all blend together?

I've forgotten what those two spices look like, but I seem to remember
that they have papery shells. I could be wrong.

Judith

Judith said:

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:41:02 +0000, Peter <[email hidden]>
wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

(Anyone interested in the recipe or mine can find it at
http://www.allblue.f9.co.uk/chilli.htm.

That sounds tasty

It is!

Quoted message said:

. A question about the spices, though. Do you end
up picking out the shells of the coriander and cumin while you're
eating your dinner?

No - but it is a good idea to fish out the whole chillis.

Quoted message said:

Or does it all blend together?

Yes.

Quoted message said:

I've forgotten what those two spices look like, but I seem to remember
that they have papery shells. I could be wrong.

Coriander is round and hard (but softens with cooking); cumin is small
and, well, seed-shaped.

Peter.

SteveO said:

Nick Pedley said:

Looks like we could start a new grouping after the Argos tent one seems to
have died out.... Stagg Chilli Eaters!

They do 3 different varieties, what's the difference? What's your favourite?

As a chilll-hound I must confess that Stagg (brands var.), although
poss the best on the go, are [still] lacking "chilliness".

Even the Dynamite variant? I like a good chilli but that one was far
too hot for me. What do people tend to eat chilli with when out and
about? Rice uses too much gas IMO. Does that Dolmio microwave pasta
work if you just stir it into hot chilli? I guess it must be already
cooked if you just microwave it.

Chris
--
Chris Eilbeck [email hidden]
MARS Flight Crew http://www.mars.org.uk/
UKRA #1108 Level 2 UYB
Tripoli UK Member #9527 LSMR

In article <[email hidden]>, Chris Eilbeck
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

SteveO said:

Nick Pedley said:

Looks like we could start a new grouping after the Argos tent one seems to
have died out.... Stagg Chilli Eaters!

They do 3 different varieties, what's the difference? What's your favourite?

As a chilll-hound I must confess that Stagg (brands var.), although
poss the best on the go, are [still] lacking "chilliness".

Even the Dynamite variant? I like a good chilli but that one was far
too hot for me. What do people tend to eat chilli with when out and
about? Rice uses too much gas IMO. Does that Dolmio microwave pasta
work if you just stir it into hot chilli? I guess it must be already
cooked if you just microwave it.

Not tried it but Uncle Ben's microwavable rice cooks just fine in a
couple of minutes with s small puddle of water in the bottom of the
pot... As it has a fair bit of water in it it isn't a light as your
normal rice but it is certainly much easier to deal with on the hill.

--

Dominic Sexton

* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
* of violets, as Peter <[email hidden]> descended on a shaft
* of golden sunlight, and announced:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I've forgotten what those two spices look like, but I seem to remember
that they have papery shells. I could be wrong.

IIRC it's cardomans that have the papery covering.

Jim Ford