Son & wife took off for Europe one Christmas. I was long-term seriously ill and couldn’t travel.
Over the next week I went through 15-batches of chili made from scratch. Didn’t butcher the cow was the base. No good = throw it out.
Found the combination of Chile peppers fresh & dried that suited. As we preferred, enough to break a forehead sweat, but with plenty of depth.
Made sixteen gallons one Xmas (our dinner for the Eve thereof) and the college boys (5,6?) pretty well cleaned me out. I could really e-a-t at that age, but I still watched in amazement.
So much for stocking the freezer and making gifts of some, ha!
Frank Tolberts book still the one to read (pleasure).
Getting the local butcher to acquire and save for me the beef kidney suet turned out to be “the magic”. Rendering it down on the gas grill made me the most popular human in Dogtown.
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