Buckshot Slim's Award Winning Deer Camp Chili

 

 

1     28 ounce can tomato sauce

 

1    28 ounce can diced tomatoes

 

1    medium yellow onion (chopped fine)

 

2    celery ribs (chopped fine)

 

3/4  teaspoon Italian herbs

 

1/2  pound bacon cooked & chopped

 

2     pounds ground bison, beef or venison

 

1     pound Bob Evans sausage (original, or hot)

 

2     16 1/2  ounce cans red kidney beans (rinsed well)

 

9     ounces (aprox 1/2 bottle) Sweet Baby Ray's Hickory & Brown Sugar BBQ sauce

 

1/4  cup chili powder  (I prefer 1/8 cup each  Penzey's 3000 & 9000)

 

1/2  cup Coca-Cola.  No diet & no Pepsi

 

1/8  teaspoon ground red pepper (optional) & to taste

 

1     square unsweetened Bakers Dark Chocolate  (busted up)

 

Cook the meat 1 pound at a time.  Saute' The onion and celery in with the meat.

Dump everything else in the pot.  Chocolate last.  Simmer at least  three hours.  Ifin it gets too thick add more Coke or meat stock.  Gets better every day.

 

Many people claim it's the best they've ever et.