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The real chili potluck.

The other day the hubs told me he volunteered to bring chili to work for his office's annual chili potluck.  I assumed he volunteered me because I have never seen the hubs cook anything from scratch.  So yesterday I looked up some recipes I could tweak to make my own and found one with a review that read... "My husband has been making this recipe for his work's chili contest for 13 years and has won every year." How could I not try it after reading that review?  Now, I LOVE chili.  That's precisely the reason I don't attempt to make it because as we all know, it is very hard to make a good, thick chili with just enough spice and kick.  After some moaning about adding another not-so-necessary task to my "to do" list, I suddenly felt up to the challenge.  So here it is... It's meaty- a man's chili. Check out the spices, folks.  Mmmm... Stirring the spices into the tomato paste is about all he "volunteered...