(Photo: Paul Brown, of his Grilled Tri Tip)
The aptly named Paul "Chile" Brown has entered a chile cookoff:
Well I am waiting for my trial batch to finish. I made over a gallon of chili. I am going to use Survival Spice... I will spike it with a little salt. I hope you do not mind.
I don't mind at all! I spent a lot of time developing Survival Spice™ to be great all by itself, or as a base for whatever fresh flavors you'd like to add- lemon/orange zest, toasted cumin seeds, etc. I put as little kosher salt in the blend as I could, and people on reduced sodium diets have thanked me for that. Also, I think it's a ripoff that most blends have so much salt in them, I'd much prefer that you added extra salt 'to taste' as Paul does.
Sorry to hear about your partner flaking out, Chile. I'd have been proud to be your sous chef.
Good luck! I thought the competition was this past weekend, my bad.
man i'll crawl out there to help , for some of that thar tri tip ! good luck and serve your chili in a bikini , the judges like good presentation- I once did a bbq contest in the seafood div. and served 3 different types of fish and 3 sauces and lost to a guy who Q'd a slab of salmon and sent it up on a cedar plank w/ a gal in a bikini(it had some darn rub on it,hehe) I swore that if I went back I'd serve them seared blubber on a hub cap served by a transvestite and tell em it was halibut, for the hell of it