re: When you make chili...

I use ancho chiles, cayenne peppers or cayenne pepper powder.

I chop up my cayenne peppers and put 'em on a skillet and let them bubble up and brown themselves. This helps you get more heat for when you put it in you chili.

Also, as a Texan, I need to re-iterate....NO BEANS, NO TOMATOES. That's for yankees and west coast ninnies.

Rice is what I use to bulk it up, if need be. Most south east Texans use rice, and Louisianans.

Good eating, sir.