Sides or Other dish to compliment Chili

[Anonymous]

Many of these ideas are vulgar. Especially hot dogs.
This is a dinner party for adults, not 5 year-olds. And as for carrots and range dressing, for the love of god. It is no longer 1979.

Sides could be brown rice, a nice crusty bread, homemade pickled chili peppers, and a crunchy salad of some kind.

No fritos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of these ideas are vulgar. Especially hot dogs.
This is a dinner party for adults, not 5 year-olds. And as for carrots and range dressing, for the love of god. It is no longer 1979.

Sides could be brown rice, a nice crusty bread, homemade pickled chili peppers, and a crunchy salad of some kind.

No fritos.

Vulgar??? It's a guys party, surprise party for her husband. My husband would live on oreos and kit kats if I wasn't in charge of the food. OK, brats maybe if he was really hungry.

There is a time for a hoity toity menu, and a time for a fun menu. Chile says go with the fun menu, especially if she is talking about a beer-drinking, football watching, meat eating crowd. Have fun with your food OP!

[Anonymous]

You could do some grilled veggie sandwiches in case you have a vegetarian or two. Get a long baguette and some goat cheese or hummus to spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these ideas are vulgar. Especially hot dogs.
This is a dinner party for adults, not 5 year-olds. And as for carrots and range dressing, for the love of god. It is no longer 1979.

Sides could be brown rice, a nice crusty bread, homemade pickled chili peppers, and a crunchy salad of some kind.

No fritos.

Vulgar??? It's a guys party, surprise party for her husband. My husband would live on oreos and kit kats if I wasn't in charge of the food. OK, brats maybe if he was really hungry.

There is a time for a hoity toity menu, and a time for a fun menu. Chile says go with the fun menu, especially if she is talking about a beer-drinking, football watching, meat eating crowd. Have fun with your food OP!

This. I love formal dinners, but a party based on chili is not one. Although most of my parties are formal, I always do one or two chili parties a year - usually for all-day open house type events, like for inauguration day where people (proabably around 100 total) came in and out throughout the day. We do Cincinnati-style, so I keep a huge pot of chili and a pot of spaghetti on the stove (changing it every couple hours), and next to it we have bowls, cornbread, butter, shredded cheese, chopped white onions, and beans. In other locations, I have crudite with dip, brownies, and sweet-and-salty nuts. The key is to allow people to eat whenever and concentrate on the drinks and conversation. It is not a time for fussy food. If fussy food is desired, skip the chili.

[Anonymous]

Cheese quesadillas! Easy to make lots at once if you use the oven and fold the tortilla in half. Don't put too much inside the quesadillas...a good shredded cheese blend, maybe some pepper jack, green onions, a little smoked paprika/cumin/chili powder.

Also, if you make cornbread, try the Trader Joe's mix and add one can of creamed corn, 1/2 stick melted butter, one cup of sour cream, two eggs, and a can of chopped green chiles.

[Anonymous]

Oh, 11:32, your cornbread recipe sounds devine! Thanks for posting it.

[Anonymous]

Try hushpuppies instead of cornbread.

[Anonymous]

I was thinking of individual bags of Fritos and shredded cheese so your guests could make Frito pies, but now I realize that that would be vuuuuulgar.

So maybe foie gras? Or kittens?