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Chop's Chicken Chile Recipe
There’s really nothing special about this chili recipe but when I made it a few weeks ago it tasted truly amazing.  It’s a slow cook recipe so I hope you got some time on your hands, but it’s super easy and totally worth it.  Feeds 4 (or 2 stoners).   

Ingredients

About 1 pound of chicken breast

1 can of diced tomatoes (I use Rotel or something with green chilies in it)

1 can of black beans

1 packet of chili seasoning (Lawry’s, McCormick’s or something like that)

¼ - ¾ cup of diced red and green peppers

¼ - ¾ cup of corn (I use frozen, but canned work also)

Optional- Shredded cheese and/or sour cream

1.  Combine everything (except peppers and corn) in a pot, preferably a crock pot, and set it to low and let it sit for about six hours.   Check on it every hour or so, stirring it when you check.

2.  After the chicken breaks apart by stirring it, add the peppers and corn.  Cook about another hour.

3.  Serve with shredded cheese or sour cream, or both.

4.  Crack a beer and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

If your chili is to dry add a little chicken stock.  If it’s a little runny, add some flour to thicken it up.

You know you're from Jersey if...

I’ve seen about a thousand of these lists but they still make me laugh.  These are some things I haven’t seen on one of these lists yet.

You know you’re from Jersey if…

-You refer to Bob Seger as the “poor man’s” Bruce Springsteen

-You’ve been to the places in Kevin Smith movies

-You can name the one bad pizza place in your county

-You pronounce Newark as one syllable, not NEW-ARK like how those idiots from Delaware say it

-You criticize where everyone else is from

-You don’t really know what grinders, heroes, po boys or hoagies (beside Hoagie Hut) are, but you could pick a Tastee’s sub out of a lineup

-You know no one farted, that’s just the way Elizabeth smells

-You’ve been getting wasted in Seaside since the night of your senior prom, not just the last 2 summers like some people

-You actually like the Nets

-You curse a lot but don’t give a shit about it

-You don’t mind traffic circles and think they’re actually kind of a good idea

-You don’t eat at chain Italian restaurants

-You consider “Boardwalk” food a food group

-You know that if it smells like Bayonne…well, if you’re from Jersey you know the rest

Issue #6 Love/Hate

LOVE:

1.The Oakland Atletics, 2.New Jersey, 3.the movie Pulp Fiction, 4.90’s hip hop, 5.big asses, 6.the songs “Nothing Compares 2 U” and “Break My Stride”, 7.Latin food, 8.not texting, 9.porn ,10.The Beach Boys, 11.being lazy on Sundays, 12.Timberland boots, 13.HJ’s, 14.80’s pop music, 15.Robert Redford movies, 16.Redman, 17.rodizio and sangria, 18.passing out wasted drunk, 19.whiz wit-out cheesesteaks, 20.St. Ann’s Festa, 21.making out like teenagers, 22.”this one’s on the house” drinks, 23.ska for people who hate ska, 24.cursing, 25.cooking, 26.the phrase “off the chain”, 27.the book A Clockwork Orange, 28.a cup of tea w/ a shot of Jameson, 29.thermals, 30. The Simpsons, 31. Italian food in the Northeast

HATE:

1.mayo, 2.people who don’t clean the snow off their car, 3.the song “Drop It Like It’s Hot”, 4.The Red Hot Chili Peppers, 5.last call, 6.beershits, 7.Phil Collins, 8.shaving, 9.having to go to work, 10.tricked out cars, 11.Nicolas Cage, 12.eating healthy, 13.the comic strip The Family Circus, 14.the Rutgers footbal program, 15.paying for parking, 16.raking leaves, 17.banana candy, 18.that “what up with that” skit on SNL, 19.Lil Wayne, 20.wearing my seatbelt, 21.people who wear beanies in the summertime, 22.J.D. Salinger books, 23.Rt 78, 24.mushrooms, 25.cleaning up after cooking, 26.constant complainers, 27.swagger jackers, 28.exercising, 29.TNS on crew neck shirts, 30.people with coffee breath, 31. Italian food anywhere but the Northeast