Here's the recipe Debra used for her chili a couple of days ago. She found it at a demo kiosk at Walmart of all places a couple of years ago. Imagine that. Anyway, we like this recipe quite well.

Chipotle Green Chili

Ingredient List:

• 1 pound fresh-ground Sausage
• 1 pound fresh-ground Ground Beef
• 2 packages Chipotle Taco Seasoning
• 1 can Great Northern Beans (or Navy Beans)
• 1 can Black Beans
• 1 16 oz. can Tomato Sauce
• 2 jars 505 Green Chili, medium heat
• 1 package Pictsweet Seasoning Blend (frozen foods)—or you may use fresh, pre-sautéed ingredients: ¼ cup diced Green Bell Pepper, ¼ cup diced Red Bell Pepper, ⅓ cup diced Celery, ½ cup diced Onion. Add some fresh-chopped parsley toward the end of the prep if you wish.
• 1 can petite cut Diced Tomatoes
• 12 oz. Beer (not lite!) or Chicken Broth

Instructions for Preparation:

Brown the Ground Beef and the Sausage; drain well. Mix all other ingredients into a crock pot or slow cooker and add the meats. Cook on low for 6-8 hours, stirring occasionally.

Serving Suggestions:

Spoon over Fritos and garnish with you choice of a little chopped green onion, shredded cheddar cheese, a dollop of sour cream, a few slices of fresh avocado. If you prefer, substitute cornbread for the Fritos, or include crackers or warm tortillas on the side.

This recipe will serve 4-6 persons depending on gastronomical requirements.

From the Kitchen of:

Debra Millsap

~adapted from Walmart handout recipe

12/10/2012

Mama’s Southern Style Cornbread

Ingredient List:

• 1 cup Buttermilk
• 1 (or maybe 2) Eggs
• ½ tsp Baking Soda
• ½ tsp Salt
• 1 Tbs Sugar
• 1 cup or so of Aunt Jemima or Quaker yellow Corn Meal
• 2–3 Jalapeño Peppers (optional), topped, de-veined, seeded, diced and pre-sautéed for 4–5 minutes.

Instructions for Preparation:

In a well-seasoned medium cast-iron skillet, preheat some very good quality vegetable oil to the cooking temperature of 425˚. Be sure to round the oil to coat entirely the bottom and sides of the skillet.

In a medium to large bowl, add to the buttermilk 1 or 2 eggs and stir thoroughly. Mix the dry ingredients separately—save for the corn meal—and add to the wet ingredients, stirring very thoroughly.

Add 1 cup of corn meal. If you choose to use the second egg, you may need to add just a bit more. Stir in thoroughly. It’s better for the mixture to be slightly “wet” than to make it too dry.

Add the diced and pre-sautéed Jalapeño peppers if you’d prefer that option. You may also add a bit of red, diced and pre-sautéed red bell pepper if you wish.

Pour into the pre-heated skillet and return to oven for 22–25 minutes. At about 20 minutes, check by lightly thumping a wooden spoon in the center of the cornbread. When the retort sounds like a ripe watermelon, you’re pretty much done.

Serving Suggestion:

Remove from pan, invert onto a plate and slice. Split and add real butter to taste. Please don’t ruin this cornbread with margarine! That stuff’s only one molecule away from plastic and won’t match very well.

This ain’t no Yankee-made sweet cornbread. If you want that, go get a cake mix.

This cornbread goes especially well with the Potato Soup and Hunter’s Stew, also to be found in this collection of recipies. Try it also with pan-fried pork chops, fresh cooked mixed greens and especially pinto beans. It’ll do with just a chopped burger and some mixed vegetables as well.

From the Kitchen of:

Anna Millsap

29 January 2011

Author's Bio Draft (Revision A)

[After correcting, revising and incorporating several excellent suggestions, I've come up with something a bit better. Still looking for interest and impact though . . . something you'd read on the back of a book. Soooo, I'm still open to critique with an eye toward improvement. Thanks again!]

Richard Kim Millsap

Author’s Biography

Richard Kim Millsap is an experienced free-lance writer, reviewer, blogger, poet and composer. He was a public school educator in Colorado Springs for 28 years, serving as music teacher to elementary and middle-school students. After retirement, he invested an additional seven-plus years serving the particular patrons of Glen Eyrie, a private Christian conference center owned by The Navigators. Kim currently works in a volunteer capacity as content editor and sometime contributor for the newsletter and web-site of Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Kim holds a M.M. in Music History and Literature from Colorado State University and a B.A. in Music Education from Arkansas Tech University. Additional formal coursework includes The University of Colorado at Boulder, The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs as well as numerous workshops, extensions and conferences across the United States.

Kim somehow found time as an educational and business writer and editor, creating the various student handbooks and instructional content across the years. At Glen Eyrie, Kim solidified and co-authored the standard operating procedures for Guest Services as well as serving as principal administrator for social media. He has participated in writer’s conferences in Colorado with Angela Hunt, Nancy Rue and Kathryn Mackel; and in Washington with Garth Stein.

Whilst at Glen Eyrie, Kim became especially intrigued by the life of Civil War officer William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs. With strong tie-ins to his additional interests in western living and literature, firearms and ballistics, camp-style cuisine, brass instruments and various historical locales came the seminal ideas for Cheyenne Swirling.

As a former band and choral director, Kim has presented his students in hundreds of concerts and addressed audiences comprised variously of students, parents, patrons and conference attendees. Having also presented formally in Colorado and Ontario, he is a confident and adept public speaker. If Kim has any particular claim to fame otherwise, it is as a founding member of the Academy District Twenty classic rock group, Mid-Life Crisis.

Kim’s book and film reviews may be found on Amazon (writing as Russell de Ville). See his blog at lucidnoodle.blogspot.com. He is also conscientiously active on Facebook. Cheyenne Swirling is the author’s first novel. 

Author's Biography

[So here's what I've cobbled together as a Draft for my Author's Bio. To the extent you'd care to critique and comment, I'd be appreciative!]

Richard Kim Millsap

Author’s Biography

Richard Kim Millsap is alive and well in Colorado.

Kim was a public school educator in Colorado Springs for 28 years, serving principally as a band director, general music teacher and choral conductor for elementary and middle-school students. After retirement, he invested an additional seven-plus years serving the particular patrons of Glen Eyrie, a private Christian conference center owned by The Navigators. Kim currently works in a volunteer capacity as content editor and sometime contributor for the newsletter and web-site of Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Kim holds a M.M. in Music History and Literature from Colorado State University and a B.A. in Music Education from Arkansas Tech University. Additional formal coursework includes The University of Colorado at Boulder, The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs as well as numerous workshops, extensions and conferences across the United States.

Kim somehow found time as an educational and business writer and editor, creating the various student handbooks and instructional content across the years. At Glen Eyrie, Kim solidified and co-authored the standard operating procedures for Guest Services as well as serving as principal administrator for social media.

Also whilst at Glen Eyrie, Kim became especially intrigues by the life of Civil War officer William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs. With strong tie-ins to his additional interests in western living and literature, firearms and ballistics, camp-style cuisine, brass instruments, various historical locales came the seminal ideas for Cheyenne Swirling.

As a former band and choral director, Kim has presented his students in hundreds of concerts and addressed audiences comprised variously of students, parents and conference attendees. Having also presented formally in Colorado and Ontario, he is quite confident and adept as a public speaker. If Kim has any particular claim to fame otherwise, it is as a founding member of the Academy District Twenty classic rock group, Mid-Life Crisis.

Kim’s book and film reviews may be found on Amazon (writing as Russell de Ville) and Goodreads. See his blog at lucidnoodle.blogspot.com. He is also insanely active on Facebook. Cheyenne Swirling is the author’s first novel.