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Sibling Rivalries: Chili Edition


Inside, everything's set up and waiting for the hungry and the curious: Clint's cooking in one corner, and Verity's in the other. Between them, tables are laid out with the necessities: bowls, plates, spoons, and plenty of napkins. There's beer and iced tea, some lovely tres leches cakes provided by the Nexus' favorite Japanese detective, and various toppings for the chili: bottles of sriracha and sweet Thai chili sauce, red pepper flakes, green onions and red, lime wedges, diced bell peppers and jalapeños, crumbled bacon, shredded cheddar cheese and sour cream. Cornbread and tortilla chips round things out.
Long tables with a mix of benches and chairs fill the hall on either side of the fire pits. One has board and card games stacked neatly at one end (they were neat when they were put out, at least). Another has two boxes, one wrapped in purple paper and one in pink, for depositing voting slips.
Poll #17301 1st Annual Chili Cook-Off
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7
Who gets your vote?
((There will doubtless be further Cupid-based shenanigans, but this weekend, it's all about the platonic relationships. Bromances, BFFs, and family ties rule the day! Let's celebrate! Threadhopping, tangents, games, and mischief are all encouraged. Just don't start a food fight or Verity will have to yell.))
Clint Barton's "Avengers Assemble" Chili
Those with gentler mouths are advised to take theirs ladled over a bowl of crumbled-up cornbread, topped with shredded cheese, a generous dollop of sour cream, and a few fresh minced chives. Those desirous of a hotter experience are welcome to some of this year's new experiment, his "Infinity Gauntlet" salsa: scotch bonnets, red savina habaneros, komodo dragon chili peppers, bhut jolokia, Trinidad moruga scorpions, and Carolina reapers, blended cold with chopped tomatoes to preserve enough heat to make Volstagg blanch.
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Did someone say Assemble?
Damn right, someone said Assemble!
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RE: Assemble
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Of course Bugs is going to try the salsa
Re: Of course Bugs is going to try the salsa
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No icon fit.
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In the Pink Corner...
Her chili is also, it should be noted, amazing. Maybe she doesn't have fancy names for things, but she's got a chili that started life as a beef roast and fresh tomatoes, a mix of kidney and black beans and chickpeas, stewed together until the tomatoes were soft and creamy and the beef was falling apart. Then the beef was shredded and the pot was seasoned and spiced and put to simmer. Caramelized onions, roasted garlic and bell peppers, a blend of chilis, smoke and bittersweet chocolate, a hint of black tea and a note of something more exotic round out the flavors.
This is a good, proper stew: thick, warming, inviting second servings because no taste buds were killed in the eating of the first. But if someone is so enraptured they never want to taste food again, she too has a little pot of stewed-down chilis with which to heat individual servings to taste. But she takes no responsibility for what happens after.
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hope you don't mind me jumping in to interact with kitty :D
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Hot Toddukah Chili: The Seconding
Chili's always better the next day! ;)
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The House that Purple Built
Hope this place is fireproof, with those babies out.
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Needed maximum cute
[cuteness intensifies]
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I stared at that picture too long and now I want chili more than i want AIR
Once I figure out how to get it through the intertubes I will send you some.
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The Obligatory Dessert Station
As this event is really much more about the sibling rivalry over who has the better meaty stewlike concoction, Katsuya has done his best to set up in a quiet part of the hall. He has three tres leches cakes with varying toppings: fruit, a dusting of cocoa powder, and one with a fourth leche in the form of drizzled dulce de leche atop the whipped cream icing. He's cut all three cakes once already for easy serving and has several disposable bowls and plastic cutlery for folks to obtain their dessert in.
Once he gets all set up, he will wander to go try out the chilis, but rest assured for those needing sweet relief from all the spicy chili, he won't leave any wanting for dessert.
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he's sort of anywhere milling around
"Huh. People must like food here a lot."
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Welcome back!
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Whenever he gets the chance and someone who's manning the tables looks away, Manjimutt darts out and attempts to snag a plate, a bowl, a single treat in his teeth and duck back into hiding. Free food brings out the hungry cryptids in the Nexus.
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