The Ultimate Chili Recipe

I know that I say that all my recipes are the "Ultimate" but this one really is. At my house, this is the most requested recipe I have. My friends and family really love this chili. It is good! At one time, I actually ate it almost everyday.

The Ultimate Chili Recipe

The cheese is cheddar. It is raw Organic Valley cheddar,uncolored. It is great. I really like this chili with a dollop of plain yogurt. It gives it a nice tang.

Well, my little collecting tips idea for blog links was a little bit of a bust but, Crabby gave me an idea. She sent me a recipe I could use for, well you'll see. So, instead of a tip, you could post a simple healthy snack recipe. If I get 3 or 4 I think I can make them into an article and have some info about your blog and some linking. You would just have to promise to link back to the article when it posts. Does this sound doable? Dawn, I am looking forward to your recipe for cream filled apple donuts (healthyish I am sure). I hope its easy!

Do you eat veal?

You might be and you just don't know it! If you are not eating vegetarian cheese, you are. See, many cheeses are made with the enzyme rennet. Where does rennet come from? It comes from the stomach of a baby cow. Yep, pretty gross. Now, I am not saying I am a vegetarian because I am not. I do however try to be educated in what foods I do eat and I do try to avoid anything that I deem cruel. One of the places I draw the line at is the slaughtering of baby animals. So, I do not eat veal and now I will be more particular about the cheeses I buy.

The story goes that cheese was invented when people used to keep milk in bags made of sheep stomachs. When people began to travel with the milk in these bags, the combination of the agitation and rennet enzyme caused the milk to ferment and coagulate, forming cheese.

Most cheese can also be made with (good) bacteria, and microbial rennet (made from mold). While these methods only came about because the demand for veal calves cannot keep up with the demand for the enzymes used to make cheese, it is good that many major companies are not using veal rennet. Luck us, Kraft cheese, that is made in the US, is vegetarian!

Here is also a list I found of cheeses listed by brand that are vegetarian.

I think I am having a bit of a moral dilema when it comes to eating meat at all. I mean, I do not necessarily think that eating meat is wrong per se. Yet, I am troubled by how animals are treated and try to limit my consumption to companies that I know treat their animals well, whether it is meat, poultry, dairy or eggs. Am I the only one having this moral dilemma?