My Dad makes some of the most wonderful chili I’ve ever had, and I love chili. This is the recipe my Mom provided when I asked about it. They use a pressure cooker to do it but it can be done in a large stew pot but will take longer.

Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground turkey
• 1 lb. turkey sausage
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 1 medium bell pepper (orange, yellow, red)
• 1 tablespoon (T) chili powder
• 1 teaspoon (t) salt
• ¼ teaspoon (t) garlic powder
• 1 ½ teaspoon (t) parsley
• 1 ½ teaspoon (t) oregano or sage
• ½ teaspoon (t) thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 teaspoons (t) cumin
• ¼ cup vinegar
• 16 oz tomato sauce
• 16 oz stewed tomatoes
• ½ cup corn

Instructions

1. Brown and drain turkey and turkey sausage in large pan
2. Add onion and pepper, sauté until onion and pepper are soft
3. Combine all ingredients except corn
4. Stir
5. Close pressure cooker and cooke for about 15 minutes
6. Allow to cool
7. Add corn and simmer
8. Stir until corn and chili are evenly heated

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated the east coast of northern Japan. And so DoSoKai is putting on Run for Japan for people to come out and show support the recovery and raise funds for earthquake / tsunami victims.

As you may be aware Mai and I have already donated time and travel to go to Japan and do volunteer work with All Hands in Ofunato and I am happy to be able to continue helping even if only in this small way.

Tomorrow I’ll be donating some money and time to run (hopefully) 10k. Mai and I will be at the 72nd St & 5th Ave entrance to Central Park tomorrow bright and early-ish at 09:00 to get registered and warmed up. I would be super grateful if folks would come and show their support as well. Either for me or for Japan or both.

There has been talk around the internet lately about long form journalism and its merits, particularly compared to short blog posts (like this one) which are largely a rehash of information. The lack of long form writing and therefore long form reading implies people are taking bits of information someone else has already read and analyzed without checking the sourcing. As a result we, the collective denizens of the Internet, have largely outsourced the burden of weighty reading and analysis to other people.

A new project on Kickstarter called MATTER is trying to change the status quo by focusing on publishing one weighty investigative piece every week. MATTER claimes to be reader, rather than advertiser focused, and so they will charge a nominal fee (99¢) per article.

I think the whole model is brilliant and I’m pleased to say I’ve backed the venture on Kickstarter and I think you should too.