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• Best things in life (beer, chocolate, coffee, porkchops) chili.

Chili is one of those things that I usually make with whatever I have left in the cupboard. This particular recipe though, comes from a day when I was put in charge of cooking dinner at my parent's house right after Christmas and was told to use leftovers from our always epic Christmas Night family parties. Both my parents are from Irish Catholic families so picture 14 Aunts and Uncles, their spouses, friends, and a gagillion cousins, and mix in alcohol, presents, and an no holds bard Yankee Swap and lets just say its always a good time! <br /> <br />Anyway, this particular time, the leftovers from the party included beer, chocolate chips, and coffee. I combined these with the usual chili fixings and used some pork chops they had in the freezer as the meat. I had learned from Alton Brown to use jarred salsa and build off of and crushed tortilla chips to thicken your chili and I have been using this trick for years, including in this recipe. The spiciness can be adjusted to your liking. <br /> <br />I don't have any science to prove this, but I think adding the spices and garlic to the chili for the second half of the cooking gave it a really nice spiciness which was not hot, but more of a gradual warm sensation in the back of the throat as we ate it. <br /> <br />There's a lot of ingredients, but trust me it tastes great and you probably have most of them in your cupboard already. <br /> <br />This is an all day length cooking recipe, meant for those days when you have a lot of things to do around the house but really just want to watch hours of tv episodes on DVD. In other words it'll take a long time, but they'll be plenty of time for you do other things while it cooks. <br /> <br />Enjoy.

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