To Do: Chili Cookoff

Yes, yours truly had to participate in a chili cook-off today for work. If you know where I work you will understand the random humor of this.

We have to make an award winning chili (I found a great recipe), create a poem/skit to present our chili, decorate a table/booth and tie a U.S. President into the theme. WHAT? Yeah, that's what I thought.

We hadPresident Grant. Here is the receipe we used and poem that I created...

Kentucky Bourbon Chili
* 4 pounds lean ground beef
* 1 cup Kentucky Bourbon
* 3/4 cup chili powder
* 1 teaspoon oregano
* 1 tablespoon diced onion
* 3/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 16-ounce can kidney beans
* 2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
* 1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
* 6 8-ounce cans water
* 1 teaspoon cumin
* 2 teaspoons paprika
* 2 teaspoons garlic powder
* 4 small cans chopped green chilis

Brown ground beef and drain off fat. Add ingredients one at a time in order listed. Simmer 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Makes about 1 1/2 gallons of chili.


President Grant
Our 18th President left his mark in so many ways,
we can thank him for Colorado and OPM snow days.

He was praised by Lincoln for being bold and risky,
and this made Lincoln want to give all the Generals that Old Crow Whiskey.

Grant may not have been an Ashton Kutcher,
but he sure was known an our Nation’s butcher.

He was known as a General who loved to kill,
I guess this earned him a spot on the fifty dollar bill.

By winning his wars in the bloodiest way,
he was the obvious choice for 8th Prez of the NRA.

Once he was arrested for speeding in his horse and buggy,
and then hoofed it back to the White House in weather so muggy.

His beautiful First Lady was a little cross-eyed,
but Grant said he liked her that way… he may have lied.

And after he had a tumbler of his whiskey,
he and his wife were known to get a little frisky!!!

Poor Grant got throat cancer from smoking a lot,
I guess he should have just stuck to his whiskey shot.

Though when he was surrounded by his wife, son and daughter…
his last request was not for whiskey, but for water.

And a game show contestant once met his doom,
when he incorrectly answered “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?”

Grant's scandals arose when he kept lots of gifts…
but Jane says, “I never would have let this happen on my shift!”