Chili (and Sodexho's Sucks!)

Ingredients:

2 cans Hunt's Tomato Sauce
1 can Scarpone's Red Kidney Beans
1 can Scarpone's Black Beans
1 can Scarpone's Mixed Beans (Red Kidney, Chickpeas, Blackeye)
1 Green Bell Pepper*
1 Onion*
3-4 stalks Celery*
1 kg Cooked Ground Beef
0.5-1.0 jar Salsa*
Seasoning (Chili Powder et al) to taste!

Directions:

1. Fry the beef until thoroughly cooked. Cook it into small pieces for a homogenous chili. Rinse under very hot water to remove most of the fat. Add to the Pot.

2. Finely slice and dice celery and onion and add to the Pot. I prefer to do these two first because they are very crunchy and they take the longest to soften.

3. Add two cans of tomato sauce, any amount of salsa, at least a tablespoon of chili powder, and turn to low heat.

4. Open and drain the cans of beans, and add to the Pot.

5. Finely chop bell pepper and add at any time after this. Most of the fibre in bell peppers is soluble, so they become very soft quite quickly. Beans are mostly insoluble fibre, so they do not change consistency much once added. I prefer to add peppers once the crunchy bits like onion and celery are cooked to the degree I like them, or just before.

6. Let the chili simmer for at least 1.5 hours and then taste it. Adjust flavour with seasoning. If you taste it or add seasoning while the ingredients are still raw, it won't come out quite right, unless you've done it similarly before and you know how much to add.

* Ingredients marked * are organic. I recommend getting everything organic that you can!