Last night I made a big pot of chili. We usually make a big pot of chili because we eat on it the rest of the week and after we’re done with it that week, we’ll freeze the rest of it. I think this pot of chili that I made last night was one of the best pots that I have made in a long time. I figured since this was one of the best I’ve made in a while I’d jot down the recipe, I figured I’d put it on my blog because if I don’t I’ll lose the recipe!

1 - Very large can of Bush’s chili beans in mild sauce
1 - Large can of tomato sauce
2 - Cans of Hunt’s Seasoned Diced Tomato Sauce for Chili
1 - Can of Rotel diced tomatoes and green chilies
3 - lbs of ground beef, browned and drained.
1/4 - cup of Asian Sweet & Sour Sauce (will be a deep red color)
2 - Tablespoons of salt
2 - Tablespoons of black pepper
2 - Tablespoons of yellow mustard
3 - Tablespoons of ketchup
1 - Tablespoon of sugar
Water - Use as much as you desire.

Other than the canned stuff, I’m not exactly sure how much of everything I used. I don’t measure things out. I usually just add to the big stew pot as I think of things to add. The sweet and sour sauce, it seems like I used more than 1/4 of a cup but again, I’m not really sure.

You can obviously use as much ground beef as you like, little or more. Everyone in my family prefers a really meaty chili. It’s always a battle for me to please them because I like my chili with a little bit of soupiness to it!

Also, I really like my chili with some onion and diced green peppers in it. No one else here likes an onion in their chili and we didn’t have any green peppers. Both of those make the chili, any pot I’ve ever made, a lot better.

Hopefully sometime in the future I can make a video with this recipe.

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I just now turned on the new theme for Andy Not Andrew. I’ve been putting a lot of time into this. I spent way too much time trying to come up with a sidebar for the site. The other day I took all the styling off of the sidebar and I decided that it looked really good just like that, so, I kept it off.

The header was designed from some drawings that I made. I scanned them, added color and added some effects. I think it came out pretty well. I am pretty pleased with it even if I do say so myself.

I hope it works! I hope you like it! Let me know!

Before I get to the point of this entry, I would like to thank each and every one of you who have left me comments on my previous videos. It is truly, truly a welcome site to see people leaving comments when you put time and effort into these videos. I’m sure many of you can relate to that. Thank you so much!

I’d also like to give you an update on things happening with this site. The past month I have been working on a new theme for this website. The theme creation progress hasn’t came as quickly as I would have liked for it to. I’m going to put a teaser image in this post somewhere. It’s got a little snippet of a drawing that I did, scanned and applied color and other effects to. I’m going to try and stick with that because I like it quite a bit and other people I showed it to said that they thought it was nice as well. I just hope I can get it presentable soon!

Last night I deleted my Twitter account. I know that might sound really crazy to some of you still on there since you know I updated on there quite a bit when I first began. I honestly don’t have a reason for doing it. Last night I got to thinking about it and I just done it. I have to say that it feels really good. In a way, I feel as though a burden (and that’s not the right word, but the first one that came to my mind) has been lifted from me. If people want to talk with me, they can IM me. If I want to find out what my friends are posting I’ll subscribe to their blogs in Google Reader. By the way, their servers suck. Every time I would tell it to delete my account I would get one of those error messages with the kitten’s with A/V cables. Sorry, but that’s really stupid and it annoys me. I’m really tired of websites using kittens.

I’ve recorded quite a number of video clips in the past couple of weeks. My upcoming video will hopefully be put together soon. I need to get busy on that as well. It’s going to be a large project because it’s going to be a lot of clips about my daily routine. After this video, I want to do some more videos with me doing or talking about something in particular.

Well, that’s enough of me rambling. I just felt as though I should give you all an update on what I’ve been up to since I’ve not posted or replied to your comments, which again, thank you, I’m very grateful for!

One of my best friends turned 32 today. I thought I’d put together a video with my favorite photos and video clips of his and also tell you why I like Steve Harris.

This is my first video with iMovie. I wanted a higher quality video but did not think to change the settings. It was getting late and I pretty much said, whatever and uploaded it anyways.

If you want to learn more about Steve Harris you can check out his personal blog or his business site where you can purchase awesome software for the Mac!

Thirty2 (MP4) (11 MB)

I am aggravated by the fact that we continually only give poor people the food that we do not want. I’m also annoyed that with foods such as ramen noodles being so cheap that people are dying of starvation.

In the video I mention that you can can donate to TransFM and help them get people to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress to include disabled and LGBT individuals in a hate crimes bill. I also mention that you can also donate to me, which would be greatly appreciated. If you’d like to do the latter, scroll down to the donation form on the sidebar.

Vienna Sausages Make You Strong (MP4) (53.7 MB)