Sunday, February 1, 2009

Chili con Carnage!

Keith, Tanya and Grayson endured the long drive from Orillia to pay us a weekend visit....and on a blustery winter weekend, what better than a few dark beers and a bubbling slow-cooker full of spicy chili goodness?

We made two batches, one mild and one wild...the MILD for Tanya and Grayson with ground chicken and no spice...and the WILD for the rest of us with ground beef, jalapenos, some Brick Bock and ample spice fixin's. Throw in some nacho chips and you have yourself one fiesty little meal, mis amigos.

Of course, before any of this could happen....they had to get INTO the driveway in the first place. Our drifty driveway and their bald tires made for some highly entertaining moments, including the action shot captured below of Mike and Tanya pushing the car while Jane stands in the warm house taking photographs out the window... .

Then of course we had to shovel them out again, so that they could leave....it doesn't need to actually snow in Wheatley to have to shovel your driveway again. The wind takes care of all that for you, and just moves some more around the yard. In the midst of winter, we usually park at the road and walk in, so as to avoid shovelling the lengthy driveway....but we thought we'd pull out all the stops to impress the company.

Dicing the garlic...or Dicing with Death?!?

The start of Chili con Carnage!

You can't leave until you shovel your way out....

All visitors get the Royal Welcome, i.e. a push

3 comments:

sweet rose said...

Your chili sounds hot. I would go with the mild people. Like your fotos and your country.

Anonymous said...

and we drove to wheatley to get AWAY from the snow...

Simone Maroney said...

i dunno... maybe it would be easire to regularly hose the driveway down with water and watch it freeze.
looks like you could do this from the kitchen window.
or, if you drink enough beer...