Ingredients

How to make it

  • Chop peppers and onions
  • Use gloves to do this
  • cut your beef into small squares
  • Squish the tomatoes with your hands in a bowl add to pot with beans and spices.
  • Brown the bacon until it releases it's grease.
  • Remove the bacon to the pot.
  • Dump the onions into the pan and coat them with the bacon grease.
  • Make sure to stir the onions around, picking up all those lovely little bits of flavor that Emeril calls yum yums....and they are!
  • Once the onions are translucent, into the pot they go.
  • In your clean pan (thanks to the onions), add a little oil if you need it, then the beef.
  • Brown the beef. It needn't be fully cooked inside.
  • When it's all good and brown, put in pot. into the pot.
  • use the peppers as you did with the onions, to clean the pan.
  • Just do not inhale over the pan!
  • Add to pot and stir.
  • Add the bay leaves. .
  • simmer for at least 45 minutes to 3 hours
  • Add cheddar. No substitution as there is no other cheese allowed
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