I've been there.

Thick cut, pan roasted pork loin with a homemade spicy barbecue sauce.

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Three words, my friend: Pork. Jowl. Bacon.

Also, I don't know what thread it was in, but whoever talked about the bacon press thingies deserves a ****ing medal.

Please explain

Really basic great chili:
brown the burger (venison is the best, but beef will do), diced onions, diced green peppers, diced red peppers. Add a can of diced tomatoes and a can of tomato sauce. Let it simmer for an hour or so. Add Chili powder, fresh grated garlic, the mustard, the vinegar, and the corn meal. I prefer crushing up my own dried chilis (ancho and new mexico), but the chili powder will do fine.

Amounts are approximate:
2 lbs ground venison or beef
1 large onion
2 green peppers
2 red peppers
1 can diced maters
1 can mater sauce
1/4 cup chili powder (or 5 crushed dried chilis)
2 TBLP yellow mustard
2 TBSP apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup corn meal
Salt/pepper to taste

Should be able to whip this up in about 1.5 hours total time.

:drool::drool::drool::drool:

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Which part?

The pork jowl bacon is just bacon made from pork jowls. Similar to guanciale.

The bacon press is a disk with a handle you use to put on top of the bacon while it cooks to keep it flat. This one's mine: http://smile.amazon.com/Norpro-Round...ds=bacon+press

It keeps the meat in constant contact with the pan, helps keep it flat, and on only one use, I think it helps to render fat better (perhaps because of the increased connection to the pan, but also possibly because of the disk heating up and helping to slowly cook from the top). It also seems to trap some steam under the press, which likely also helps to render the fat.

Thanks. I found a very similar recipe as the above, but it doesn't include onions. That doesn't seem right to me...

The onion in the recipe doesn't seem right or its exclusion in the other recipe doesn't seem right?

I've never heard of chili without onion of some sort (even dried).

It doesn't seem right without it. The recipe I found calls for it, but as a side.

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Chili without onion sounds ****ing awful.

not for dinner but a snack lol

That looks awesome. I could eat that all day. :thumb:

Had shepherd's pie at lunch. Just having burgers on the cast iron for dinner, but the wife made homemade hamburger buns today.

Dinner is a second serving of sausage gravy over biscuits just like breakfast... it turned out BEAUTIFULLY the first time and I have no doubt it'll be just as good X2.

Might even add an egg or two, gonna be killer all over again.