I am 36 and just learning...

I am going to admit something in the blogosphere I am just learning to cook.  I have spent most of my adult life eating at restaurants ordering take out or eating fast food.  I can honestly say if I don’t step another foot in a restaurant for the next year I will be fine with it!  Going out to eat used to be a treat.  But when you go every single day it’s not.  So when someone wants to celebrate a birthday or something it’s always let’s go out to eat and it is a treat for everyone else.  For me I think if someone said let me cook for you I would be blown away and so excited to me a home cooked meal is a treat.  So I have decided it is time to dust off the cookbooks and start rattling the pots and pans and learn to cook.  

Don't get me wrong I do know how to cook a few things.  I learned how to scramble eggs when I was kid and I have cooked a few things here and there.  I am more of a baker than a cooker though.  I love to bake I have never really had a baking disaster but cooking....  with me is hit and miss.  More misses than hits so I get discouraged and give up.  So that is why I am so late in the game but decided it's time to cook and give up the restaurants and the takeout and all that.  Plus cooking at home is way healthier.....

Wish me luck:)

My Copycat Wendy's Chili Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 Pounds Hamburger Meat
• 1 Sweet Yellow Onion Chopped
• 2 Celery Stalks chopped
• 1 teaspoon freeze dried garlic
• 1 can of ranch style beans not drained (26 oz can)
• 1 can of kidney beans drained (16 oz can)
• 1 can of pinto beans drained (16 oz can)
• 1 can of rotel diced tomatoes & green chili (10 oz can)
• 1 can of stewed tomatoes (14.5 oz can)
• 1 can of tomato sauce (15 oz can)
• 1 package of Shelby chili mix
• 1 can of water from the 15 oz tomato sauce can

Directions:

Brown hamburger meat with onion celery and garlic drain all grease from meat.  Add Shelby chili seasoning (if you don't like hot don't add cayenne pepper)  (I didn't add the Cayenne pepper salt or masa) to the pan with meat mixture add the tomato sauce the can of rotel and the can of stewed tomatoes  mix well.  In a large pot add all your beans pour the meat mixture on top add one can of water.  Simmer on low all day and then eat.  Very yum.  I simmered mine on low for 7 hours stirring the beans every so often.  It is very good.

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