Ok, so I don’t know if this qualifies as BBQ, but it does fall under the “cooked outdoors in a BBQ” category. I had a big package of stew beef in the freezer that was begging to be turned into chili, and no desire to heat up the house. So I pulled out the WSM around lunchtime and fired up a batch of chili.
The usual stuff went in; beef, onions, different varieties of peppers, garlic, tomatoes, 3 kinds of beans, plenty of spices, the kitchen sink, etc… Looked and smelled pretty tasty after about 5 hours on the WSM at 300°F.
Oldest daughter was to join me for dinner, so cornbread was in order too. I took the lazy route and pulled out the Marie Callendar’s mix; a little water, throw it in a couple of pie pans (couldn’t find my cast iron skillet), and put them on a pizza pan covering the chili for about 40 minutes. Why not on the top grill? The chili pot was about a half inch too tall for the grill to sit securely on its brackets…
The finished result was delicious. The stew beef was cooked to the point where it was falling apart and both the chili and the cornbread had a distinct flavor of mesquite from the lump charcoal.
And yes, there are plenty of leftovers. Enough that I will likely freeze some of the chili and have it for lunches next week. Yum!
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That looks wonderful!
Do you have a vegetarian version? ha ha ha ha
Actually, I do, but it isn’t anywhere near as tasty as this was. Still pretty good, but I doubt I would do the veggie version in the WSM…
That some kind of cooking, my kind of meal how can you go wrong with chili and especially being in the south the cornbread. More importantly I love the way you’re always showing that the WSM is more then a smoker, it actually can be used as a grill and I highly recommend it. Good looking stuff, great job and pics.
Thank, I appreciate the kind words. I’ve found that there are a lot of foods that are traditionally grilled that are even better when cooked indirect on the WSM (hamburgers and hot dogs come to mind). Veggies and fruits can also be grilled after the smoking is done by removing the middle section and putting one of the cooking grates on top of the fire ring. Now I just have to find out how @DivaQBBQ fixes pizza on her WSM and give that a try as well…