Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Hi, Football season (chili season where I come from) is here and this is the first year I've not made chili yet since I've become vegan. I have a chili recipe that's easy enough to convert to vegan by using veggie ground round and soy cheese, but I'd like to have a couple variations to choose from. Anyone have a really great spicy chili recipe? Preferably spicy by way of jalapeno's or another common pepper that's easy to find and use, and no cayenne please. Thanks a bunch! Kim _______________ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 i posted my recipe on the forum about three weeks ago. i think i entitled it "vegan chili." The only thing i would change in my recipe is the gimmelean to the other soy product for ground meat that crumbles. mattKim Gilbert <sunandstars2 wrote: Hi,Football season (chili season where I come from) is here and this is the first year I've not made chili yet since I've become vegan. I have a chili recipe that's easy enough to convert to vegan by using veggie ground round and soy cheese, but I'd like to have a couple variations to choose from. Anyone have a really great spicy chili recipe? Preferably spicy by way of jalapeno's or another common pepper that's easy to find and use, and no cayenne please.Thanks a bunch!Kim_______________Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Cayenne is a chili pepper. There are mild chilis, though I don't know if any in powder form. I purchased very mild fire roasted chilis at the farmer's market yesterday. They have absolutely no heat to them, not even if you bite the seeds, which are typically a very hot part of the chili pepper. Pepper, the seasoning, as in salt and pepper is a kernel, similar to a juniper berry. Peppers, in this chili sense, can be bell peppers, chili peppers, banana peppers and are all part of the nightshade family, like an eggplant or a tomato. Dragonfly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Ground cayenne IS ground chili pepper, you are entirely right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Ahhh you are in New Zealand. I don't think you all call peppers what we do. A pepper here, is a vegetable of the nightshade family. It can be very mild like a green bell pepper and even sweet like a red bell pepper. They can be hot like a jalapeno, or an Anaheim chili and there are the extremely hot habanero peppers. All of these peppers have a waxy outer skin, rugated inner flesh and seeds which attach under the more or less star-shaped stem end. They can be pale yellow like the sweet tasting banana pepper, reds, greens, yellows, oranges and even to a deep purple skin. When roasted, they will all deflate and their skins will be very thin and papery. When the skin is removed, they are seeded and chopped for use in other things. This is a picture of a green bell pepper plant, complete with green fruits. http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Capsicum/a1098tx\ ..html Dragonfly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 At 07:10 PM 9/19/2003 -1200, Persian wrote: > I am confused. I thought that ground cayenne WAS chilli. Cayenne is a variety of chile pepper, and belongs to the capsicum family, which includes " bell " peppers, habaneros, jalapenos, etc. What we in the U.S. commonly refer to as a pepper, is (correctly) called capsicum in most other English-speaking countries, such as your own. In the U.S., that which is commonly sold as " chili powder " is ground from a larger and milder chile -- often, a variety of Anaheim. Boxes of pure dried ground chile powder are widely available, particularly in areas with an Hispanic community. In most supermarkets, however, said chile powder will also contain cumin, oregano, onion, anti-caking additives, etc., so it's a good idea to become an astute label-reader (but hey, what veggie isn't?). Bottom line: Cayenne is *not* a one-for-one substitute for chile powder, unless one is looking for a very hot dish! Warmly, -N. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 Hi, I am confused. I thought that ground cayenne WAS chilli. I just looked on the web at some cayenne for sale and they say it is chilli. On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:45:24 -0700, Kim Gilbert wrote: > jalapeno's or another common pepper that's easy to find and use, and no > cayenne please. So you want a chilli recipe without chilli? As I dont eat any hot food I dont probably know very much about all the different 'hot' ingredients. Persian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 Ahhh ! Okay. It really tends to be up to the cook. Myself...I LOVE the taste of very mild fire roasted chilis. Where I go, it can be a number of types, from very mild to very hot. So, the short answer is....whatever it is YOU like. Advice? Start mild and work your way up slowly, adding a bit of fire and more milds till you get where you like the way it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 Hi again, On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:17:25 -0600, TheLadyDragonfly wrote: > Cayenne is a chili pepper. There are mild chilis, though I don't know if > any in powder form. Thank you all for the informative replies. > > I purchased very mild fire roasted chilis at the farmer's market > yesterday. They have absolutely no heat to them, not even if you bite the > seeds, which are typically a very hot part of the chili pepper. > > Pepper, the seasoning, as in salt and pepper is a kernel, similar to a > juniper berry. Peppers, in this chili sense, can be bell peppers, chili > peppers, banana peppers and are all part of the nightshade family, like an > eggplant or a tomato. I understand that peppers are red capsicums, bell peppers, banana peppers etc. What I don't know is, if someone asks for a 'chili recipe' WHAT is the chili? Does it just mean some spicy recipe? What did the person mean asking for recipes with no cayenne? Does he just want any recipe with bell peppers, banana peppers and any peppers except chili peppers? I thought jalapenos (sp?) were chili peppers and I thought habaneros (sp?) were also chili peppers. Sorry if I don't get it! Colour me confused! Persian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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