So, late last week, when I was trolling around the internet reading about Willie Nelson, I came across a rumor that he’d created his own white chili recipe called The Great White Chili.
Here’s the recipe, taken from Food.com.
Ingredients:
- 1 lb white beans, rinsed
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon chicken base
- 2 onions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 6 -8 cloves garlic, minced
- 7 ounces diced green chilies
- 4 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano leaves
- 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- 4 cups diced cooked chicken
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 cups shredded monterey jack cheese
- sour cream, to serve
- chopped green onion, to serve
- chopped cilantro, to serve
- chopped tomato, to serve
Directions
- Put the chicken stock base, broth, and beans in a large pot.
- Simmer it for two hours, covered.
- Saute the onions in the oil until they are gently browned.
- Combine the onions with the spices, chicken, and other vegetables, and simmer for another hour or so.
- Add the cheese and sour cream, cooking until the cheese melts in the chili.
- Serve the chili with more sour cream, green onions, diced tomatoes, salsa, cilantro, and/or cheese.
Here’s a lousy picture of the result:
For the record, my piss-poor photography skills aside, it was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten.
Update: Speaking of Willie Nelson and Townes Van Zandt — and I’m always speaking of Townes Van Zandt, no matter what else it might sound like I’m speaking of — I didn’t know this existed:
I’m thinking it had to have been recorded after Townes died? At least his vocal sounds an awful lot like it does on No Deeper Blue.
Update II: Some people have been nice enough to get in contact with me lately and tell me what they thought of Pike. Everybody talks about it being dark, which seems right objectively, but I always have trouble explaining that it didn’t seem dark when I wrote it.
It always makes me think of that moment in the Townes Van Zandt documentary Be Here to Love Me when someone asks him why his songs are so sad.
“They’re not all sad,” he answers. “Some of ’em are hopeless.”
I take this recipe as (more) proof that Willie Nelson is the greatest of Americans. Hyperbole aside, that looks great.
Man, it is. The only downside is it was too spicy for my kids. But that’s why I keep canned pasta around . . .
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I’ve got a pretty good chili recipe myself (yum-yum).
It’s a lot simpler than Nelson’s, too. So you can even cook it up while you’re stoned out of your noggin on medical marijuana.
So here’s the deal. I’ll share the recipe with the first one of you who reads my novel.
What? Nobody’s hungry?
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Go bite yourself, JW.
I did not think your book was dark. I thought it seemed like ‘life’. Pike going through the motions, with his friend, of everyday life. Maybe I think differently. I know that now that I read these ‘new to me’ books, I have a really hard time reading calm mysteries. I never read granny mysteries but I find it grating to read calm, whiney books.
Michelle hit it on the head. Life. What some have seen and done is so far from what some percieve as standard. I devoured Pike the same way I’ve devoured Larry Brown, William Gay or Don Pollock, not wanting it to end, why, cause I could relate to the characters, the violence and their way of being. Don’t change, brother.
Thanks, Michelle, Bill. I remember hearing somewhere that Daniel Woodrell got a little pissed off at Bouchercon because people kept calling his work dark. These are the people I know, he said.
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It looks so delicious, Even i showed this blog to my mum and she promised me that she will prepare this chili and spicy dish for me from this
chili recipe. And i love to have it.