Meal No. 162: BBQ & Vegetarian Chili

Listen: when Lowe's Foods in Winston-Salem decides it wants to offer a $20 Boston Butt pork roast for only eight bucks, seems to me it's a good time to plan on another round of indoor pulled pork barbeque with a sweet and tangy barbecue sauce. Alongside for this meal is the perfect accompaniment of blue cheese coleslaw, which was as good this time as it's ever been, and some of Granny Wilson's honey wheat cornbread.


Below is a picture of Jennifer Twineham-Subasavage, who was the sole vegetarian in attendance for this grand meal, and who was therefore my inspiration to try my hand at a new dish. Here, she is looking down at the pot cooking on the stove with what I hope passes for happy anticipation....


And here's what she was taking a gander at: a pot of vegetarian chili...


It was a delightful gathering of seven for the evening's meal, served buffet style from the grand expanse of countertop in the new kitchen:


The dinner was delicious, I'd say:

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"Vegetarian Chili," from All About Vegetarian Cooking. By the editors of Joy of Cooking: Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker. New York: Scribner (2000), p. 82-83. Cookbook was a gift from former student Alison Pomeroy.