Chicken Chili and Cornmeal Parsley Dumplings -- Rhode Island

Let me start by saying the Rhode Island's chili rated a 3.7--a shoe-in for our end-of-project party. It did raise the discussion of what dishes can be termed "chilis," mainly because, although Ted really liked this recipe, he didn't think you could really call it "chili." He thought it was really chicken in sauce with dumplings.

According to Wikipedia, Chili con carne (literally "Chili with meat", often known simply as chili) is a spicy stew. The name "chili con carne" is taken from Spanish, and means "peppers with meat." Number one, many of our best chilis do not even have meat as an ingredient and, two, I have my doubts about using Wikipedia as a genuine source, (my children vehemently feel otherwise), but this is another discussion.

The only spice in this one was chili powder, but the dumplings were an addition worth noting. We took a picture of this chili on the advice of one of my followers. All I have to do is figure out how to include it in this posting.

By the way, we served this chili with HopFish India Pal Ale from Flying Fish Brewing Company. The first few sips were a little bitter but, after that, very nice. Yes, we did find another deli in Havertown with beers we haven't tried.

I am now going to try inserting the photo we took of this week's chili. If it doesn't work it's really no big loss. Let me know if you want the recipe of this really nice "chili."

We might be changing up the order of our Chili nights. We ordered Habanera chili's and I thought that when I received the order that it could sit there in the box until I had time to open it. Well it turns out that I ordered fresh habanerollo chilis and, since they sat there in the box for at least 2 weeks, they were not refrigerated as recommended. When I opened the box a lot of those chilis were getting MOLDY!  So Utah and Wyoming might be earlier than anticipated.