Boilermaker Tailgate Chili: Allrecipes.com Top 20

While searching for recipes online, there are a variety of sites that I like to use. I enjoy comparing recipes and comments from others before I test a recipe in my own kitchen. One of the sites that I have enjoyed the most is allrecipes.com where members upload their recipes for others to test and review. One of my favorite aspects of this site is the Top 20 Recipes page in which the recipes have been reviewed by 2,000 to over 6,000 people. I have tried a few of these recipes already and they have all been instant favorites.

One of the first recipes that Chris and I experimented with was the Boilermaker Tailgate Chili. While the list of ingredients is insanely long, each one is incredibly worth it. I enjoy this chili so much that no other chili recipe quite measures up. The first time that Chris and I made the chili I thought for sure that it would fit into the stock pot that had come with my pan set. As we started adding ingredients, I quickly realized that we were going to need a much bigger stock pot. Chris ran to the grocery store in the middle of cooking to buy one and it is now permanently dubbed the "Chili Pot". While we love to share this recipe with friends, selfishly making it for ourselves is the most common reason for trekking to the grocery store with the long list of ingredients. The leftovers that I put into the deep freeze barely last more than a few weeks. I find it entertaining that this a Purdue inspired recipe considering they are now one of our Big 10 rivals, not sure if we will be able to make this recipe the day our Huskers face them...

The only small alteration that we make to the recipe is the use of HOT Italian sausage instead of the traditional, we love the heat and flavor. I'm sure with today being our first snow in Nebraska another round of Boilermaker Tailgate Chili will be on Chris's request list, I hope you put it on yours too!