Yep, beans in my chili as well. Crackers for the win!
Beans belong in chili, this aint TX.
And cornbread for me.
And cornbread for me.
The wife likes to put cornbread in her chili. I want crackers for the chili and a good bit of butter on the cornbread at the side.
It’s just me and Linda so when I cook a big batch of chili I leave the beans out and bag it in quart/gallon freezer bags. We like chili with spaghetti noodles and that’s just gross with beans but I’ll add the beans after with cornbread or I like flour tortillas too.
Thing is I make the best cornbread I ever ate. Grandma's recipe and I could eat it with about anything. But I refraine because it goes to my belt line.
Crackers and corn bread are both good but I prefer Fritos in my chili, and beans.
But leftover cornbread and egg for breakfast is hard to beat.
Anybody else out grilling this evening?!? 
Putting a rack of ribs in the electric smoker. Smok-it 2 is pretty well insulated but at these temps (currently 8 at almost noon,) it might be a little short of the 225-250 I usually like to do them. I plan to give them smoke in it for 2-3 hours then bring in to finish in the kitchen oven. Not my preference, but the temps outside are not my preference either.
I think I’m going to cold smoke some cheddar and mozzarella on my Pit Boss. I had a vent that connects the smoker side to the grill side that allows me to us the grill as a cold smoker seems to work much better when the weather is cold.
