Chili and cheater's biscuits

This is delicious, delicious chili. Why is it in two pots you ask? Because I don't know the meaning of failure, that is why. BAM!

Seriously though, its totally not in two pots because I didn't feel like scaling the recipe I used down, and in fact made it bigger by increasing the amount of beans used, because beans=cheap cheap cheap and really really good. Oh wait, yes it is. Dear world/parents. I need a bigger pot.

I got this recipe from the goddess of food blogging, Deb at SmittenKitchen. She doesn't know it, but she is my hero. I changed it a little bit, because at the time I did not have all the same ingredients, namely, no oregano, and no green peppers. So, I skipped the oregano, used red instead of green peppers, and like I said before, 2x the beans. I also ended up doubling the amount of chili pepper spice mix stuff (what is in that stuff, is it just ground up chili peppers, I have no idea), because as I tasted it, it never seemed to get hot. And my friends all agreed it STILL was not very hot when I finished it.

Here is the link to SmittenKitchen's much prettier recipe. Deb, I love you. Please let me come live your adorable life, eat your delicious food, and play with your baby. Gah.

As you can see, the recipe also calls for biscuits. I am not very brave when it comes to baking. I fear it, in fact (you will laugh in a few posts at this statement). So, I didn't make THOSE biscuits. But I did buy some Pilsbury Grands, stuff some cheese in them, and bake them up. I ran into a small problem, as I had purchased jalepenos to go with these biscuits, which clearly never made it there. Why you ask? Because I have tiny carny hands and can't open jars. Seriously. I tried for at least ten minutes, and I no longer live with/across the hall from anyone who I can bribe to do this stuff for me. Oh the difficulties of my life.

Problem: cheese+biscuit+heat=melty cheese oozing out of the biscuit and caking on my pan. Solution=unknown.

Semi-good-benefit=I get to eat melted cheese off a pan. God I love cheese.

Then I tried to be adorable and serve them the way the recipe called. I ended up just eating it out of the tupperware later due to my total lack of self control. Oh well, I tried.