Chili Of Penultimate Grooviness

Ingredients

1 lb black beans
6 garlic
1/2 lb pinto beans
2 packages tomatoes
1/4 lb kidney beans
3 tb tomato paste
2 poblano peppers
4 tb chili powder
1 green bell pepper
3 tb cumin powder
2 tomatoes coarsely
1 tb salt
2 onions
1/2 tb black pepper
2 carrots
2 tvp

Instructions

Soak beansovernight or bring to a boil, then turn off heat and soak for one hour. Saute vegetables until soft and add to beans along with rest of ingredients except TVP. Cook for one and a half hours, adding TVP the last 20 minutes of cooking. 2nd place winner in the 5th Annual Lone Star Vegetarian Chili Cook-Off, held Oct. 3 in San Antonio. Recipe by Phillip Anderson, Kim Behring, Myria Martinez and Jason Paschall, of San Antonio 14, 1993 by DEEANNE From the recipe files of Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, Internet sylvia.steiger@lunatic.com, moderator of GT Cookbook and PlanoNet Lowfat & Luscious echoes