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hmm. i'm making something for a chili cookoff and i messed up the ratios and it needs thickened.
this is only chili in the loose sense that it has chili powder, onions, cumin, a few roasted green peppers, and beans. most of the base is mushrooms, carrot, chard. it's... kind of a peppery vegetable soup at this point.
what to add? i think i have a can of black beans, but...
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as a veteran of a good dozen chili cookoffs in hippie country by now, i have learned a few things:
- if you want to make the vegetarians/vegans happy, you can do that. if you want to _get votes_, you can cook meat. i usually opt for the former and accept that most people will treat a meatless option as being somehow poisoned. one of these days i'm going to pretend there's pork in there and see if i can win.
- talking a good game is slighly more important than making a good chili.
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- other major factors in winning: "did your pot of chili outlast the other pots while people were still voting" and "are the people tallying the vote in the tank for you or not"
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@vruba i usually rely on finely chopped mushrooms and beans to kinda fill that role. sometimes lentils. once in a while i add a package of whatever ground fake meat substance i have around - usually impossible or some sausage brand that comes in a plastic tube i'm forgetting the name of.