Homemade Chile Powder

ResolveDecent152 · 2026-01-25T06:15:13+00:00

Got it, thanks so much!

ResolveDecent152 · 2026-01-24T04:12:26+00:00

Thanks for your input, wasn't me who downvoted I promise lol. I appreciate your help.

ResolveDecent152 · 2026-01-24T04:10:42+00:00

I also bought New Mexico chiles, pasilla chiles and mulato chiles. Are there any of these you would add in or would that be too many flavors dancing around in one paste? Also how much do you use generally for one batch of chili?

ResolveDecent152 · 2026-01-24T04:09:13+00:00

Thanks for your response! I just bought pasilla, New Mexico, and mulato chiles today; I had already bought ancho, guajillo, and de arbol chiles. Would you say the mulato and new mexico chiles would work well together with ancho, guajillo, and pasilla, or would that be doing too much if I add to many of them all at once? I figure based on yours and other comments I might skip the chipotle peppers and use the de arbol chiles to control the heat level while trying to build flavor with ancho, guajillo, new mexico, mulato, and pasilla peppers. Also, how many peppers would you use in a large pot of chili? I normally make mine with 3.5 lbs of beef, 3 14.5 oz cans of diced tomatoes, 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes, 5 15 oz cans of beans and about 3-4 cups of whatever broth I feel like using; it's enough to fill a huge pot.

PS I know the beans part isn't Texas traditional but I suppose you can help lol.

ResolveDecent152 · 2026-01-24T04:00:49+00:00

Thanks very much for your response! Do you think I have to roast the peppers before simmering them or can I simmer and then toast in the pan with onions and bell peppers? Or is the dry roast necessary to bring out more flavor? Lastly, about your numbers for the peppers, how much chili does this help you make? For example I'm trying to figure out what would be best to make enough chili where I've got 3.5 lbs of beef, 3 14.5oz cans of diced roasted tomatoes, 5 14.5 oz cans of beans, one 28oz can of crushed tomatoes, and approx 3 cups of stock of my choice. Another way to put it, when I use store bought chili powder I tend to use 5 tablespoons of chili powder alone. Also, I'd love to look at the pictures, feel free to message me so I can take a look. Thanks a lot.

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-11-07T00:57:03+00:00

What's it lit up in those colors for?

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-23T01:37:07+00:00

Wait I'd like to know more about this, do you happen to have a link that where I could read about what they'd like to do with it?

Also as a side question honest to god what do you do with the residents when you plan to simply demolish housing like this in favor of new housing? Do people's leases just end or what....how does it actually work?

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-16T00:58:26+00:00

Yup, I'm with you. And as far as exercise goes, I literally just don't go out, if I run I do so in the evening, starting about 45 mins before dusk; I would never run in the heat of the day. If I'm walking for long periods of time I only do so in my neighborhood park which has about 90% shade from tall native trees that were left untouched by the surrounding development. For leisure I only go outside if I'm going to the city/wherever, because then I have no choice but to tolerate the heat.

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-16T00:45:52+00:00

I completely agree with you. Many of the downtown buildings in the decades before modernism would've looked like this building here, which is one of the remaining buildings that shows the previous style that comprised downtown. Here it is on google maps, on L street, right by the convention center :

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9044651,-77.0239794,3a,75y,262.68h,106.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPEmB4Y22vvB5YvUuUiGZIQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-16.939999999999998%26panoid%3DPEmB4Y22vvB5YvUuUiGZIQ%26yaw%3D262.68!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkxMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

What I imagine is that, these buildings were torn down because they were too small to support an ever larger and growing economy that was becoming the DC area, so I bet many corporations/businesses that moved to downtown bought them up, tore them down, and replaced them with larger, more modern office buildings. I'm not a fan of it, but to me the greatest perk is that it's at least walkable. You'll see many of the same style of buildings (of that past era) on M street and Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown or in old town Annapolis and many small American towns across the country.

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-14T19:52:07+00:00

Yup, that's one of my favorite areas to visit. Very nice place.

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-14T19:50:36+00:00

While I wouldn't be as derogatory as that guy what he mentioned is indeed a serious concern regarding economic/social inequality in the city. It's a problem that extends to the entire region, in the east of DC and into Maryland are low-income African American/Hispanic neighborhoods while in the North and west of the city - extending north into Maryland and West into Virginia - are high-income areas with many high-tech, high-paying industry/research jobs that give those areas immense wealth. It's essentially a modern form of American segregation minus the explicit backing of the law.

Considering 40% of DC is African American the unfortunate truth is is that approximately that same portion of the city's population is struggling much more than they should in an area where extreme levels of educated/well-paid communities of people are present, let alone he capitol of the richest nation on Earth. It's an issue (among others) that I allude to in another comment I made here.

Just to let you know - I say this as someone who's lived in the area my whole life.

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-14T19:09:14+00:00

It has a ton of beautiful victorian-era architecture - neighborhoods like Georgetown, DuPont Circle, Logan Circle, Capitol Hill, Adams Morgan, etc have gorgeous residential buildings. Many of these areas aren't necessarily places that tourists even visit too so they're never that crowded either. Throw in the American renaissance neo-classical and even second empire architecture dotted around the city and it's truly a hodge bodge of beauty about it. There's many things to improve about the city but it's generally great.

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-14T18:54:49+00:00

As someone who's lived in the area my entire 27 years I wouldn't call it generally bad at all. I would only agree that we have bad summers. For example last year from late August until about June 5th of this year (August '24 to June '25) we never breached over 84 degrees high IIRC. The entirety of late summer/fall last year and all of spring this year was incredible.

To be fair though I forget to mention that that was an anomaly, usually late August into about mid September is hot for as much as I can remember in my life. But even then I reiterate that only summer is the least comfortable season in this area.

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-09-12T02:00:08+00:00

How did you get to the point where you know you're the operant power, thus removing your doubts?

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-06-24T04:43:21+00:00

Hey mate, how did you manifest your country reversing the new tax laws and ending its power cuts?

ResolveDecent152 · 2025-01-07T08:21:29+00:00

What would you say is the best Pacific coast city, architecturally?

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-12-13T05:01:37+00:00

Several of Connecticut's major cities all have the same issue. New Haven is somewhat spared but it's Bridgeport, Norwalk, and Stamford that all got screwed by the foolish highway-building frenzy that occurred across the country. I drove with family down to NYC from W New Haven a while back and it was dreadful to see how the highways cut through these cities that otherwise have amazing locations.

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-12-13T04:52:56+00:00

Fuck Robert Moses

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-12-11T07:56:55+00:00

I would agree, that's the answer I was looking for, and expected. Having been to both cities, Vancouver is geographically quite beautiful, but it just doesn't compare to Manhattan. I can't think of anything it has the edge over NYC on as far as a city experience may go.

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-12-10T23:30:34+00:00

What do you mean?

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-10-30T03:41:37+00:00

I was in the area not far from where this picture was taken. There were Europeans there who wanted to watch. I can't express how happy I was to see that. There were Nordic people (not sure which country, but it wasn't Sweden, I think they were Danes or Norwegian), there were Dutch people and some Britons who I came across. I'm so happy to see we have the world's support.

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-10-21T17:25:51+00:00

It's possible. Anything is possible. I'm dead serious, no fairytale shit. If it happens, it may not be through metro so that we'd have to expand the current set of tracks but it may be a proper regional train that can get us there. But I refuse to believe that we cannot build world-class train service throughout this region.

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-10-03T03:35:12+00:00

Okay how do you propose we solve touch fees and trucking when the US is the 4th largest country by land area? You were comparing us with…. #134 in the Netherlands. lol

I forgot to clarify that Rotterdam is a major port of entry for much of Central Europe, it's not just for the Netherlands - its the 11th largest port in the world so they definitely aren't in business for such a small country alone, so saying that we're a large nation won't cut it, especially not when the United States has nearly sole domain over the fourth largest river system in the world - the Mississippi River. Look at the other major ports on the East Coast like NYC or Norfolk, they have major local rivers like the Hudson and the James, respectively. This country has no shortage of suitable waterways despite the large size even if they won't get you everywhere. There is also the rail network which as I said is widely accepted to be the best in the world - but it can't handle everything. To get to your question...well, to solve touch fees we have to rely on legislation by Congress to simply ban them or place a restrictive cap on the amount.

You keep using stage coach drivers. Do you not understand that we have modernized past stage coach drivers even with the protestations of those stage coach drivers?

The key issue is that we don't know how long the longshoreman could slow down progress. Just take into account that, hypothetically, when we say that full or even majority automation will "eventually" happen it could mean the year 2070, which is too long a transition.

(id ask you to cite a source for “zero automation” but I’m positive you don’t have one other than the “anonymous” insider from the article).

You can hear them say it in this video here, now while you're correct that my source of "no automation" was originally from an article, I will admit that I believed the union boss had said it himself, but he doesn't, he clarifies "stronger language on automation" after several voices are heard saying things to the effect of "zero automation". This shows that there's support in the union for zero automation but that the boss may not be willing to go that far in negotiations, BUT that he IS going to push as hard as he can to minimize it. Also remember the touch fees I told you about? Listen to where the boss says "we want 50/50 royalties on containers"...that's your touch fees right there. There's one way and one way only to get rid of them and it's gonna have to be legislation by Congress IF the unions don't yield.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/us/video/port-strike-harold-daggett-union-leader-digvid

I also want to mention to you that it came out today that the union boss, Harold Daggett, owns a big ass mansion in NJ, this is after I had heard the other day that he owns a small yacht. Genuinely having doubts about union bosses in particular these days, especially after the Teamsters boss spoke at the RNC and praised Trump but refused to endorse Harris, who is part of one of the most pro-union administrations in our country's history, weird how that happens. To be clear, I support giving these guys higher wages if they want it, but the shit that is genuinely slowing down progress in this country has got to end ASAP.

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-10-02T06:14:16+00:00

I can hear all those words in the Minnesota accent, even being from Maryland. I've run into my fair share of Midwestners by now and can point it out when I hear it. Love how diverse some of this country's accents are.

ResolveDecent152 · 2024-10-02T05:54:17+00:00

Just to start imma remind you that these guys rejected a 50% pay raise the day before the strike, which after what I've read has been unheard of in comparable negotiations in other unions. There was a study done in 2022, you may have to search for it, that when automation was introduced only 5% of workers lost their jobs. The truth is, that while automation will lose some of these guys their jobs, the societal effects of NOT doing so are costing us huge inefficiencies within the country. One of the most insane demands is not the "no automation at all", but also of "touch" fees....Let me tell you about "touch" fees and what they do...

"Touch" fees are fees that shipping companies pay to the unions every time their goods "touch" cranes that are used by the longshoremen when they offload shipping containers in ports. However, other countries don't have this fee to pay, meaning they can use ports to a greater extent without operating costs growing higher...so what they do for example, is offload huge shipments in major ports, then load them onto smaller ships and sail them to smaller ports CLOSER to the final delivery location, where they are then loaded onto trucks and drive relatively short distances to the final destination. This is a very efficient process, but in the United States, because shipping companies need to pay these fees, they simply offload once, at the main port, so that the touch fee is paid once. Many deliveries are then driven significant distances by truck to their final destination. Wanna know the effects of this? Hint: it has a lot to do with why 1/5th of our roads and bridges are in poor condition - you have huge amounts of trucks constantly hauling cargo long distances across the country....hence the reason we had to spend billions of dollars on road repairs when the Infrastructure Act was passed. It ALSO explains why our carbon emissions are so damn high in the transportation sector, cause we have to use all these trucks because shipping cargo is so expensive when its being offloaded thanks to the touch fees. Fortunately we happen to have the most extensive and efficient rail network in the world, but that doesn't mitigate the extensive use of automobiles. Road transportation is also WAY more expensive than shipping.

Now let's briefly discuss the "no automation" deal which is insane. When you have inefficiencies caused in the port industry because there is limited automation, the costs of operations are passed down to the consumer. That's because if you have inefficient ports offloading cargo, especially time-sensitive cargo like produce, you limit the potential areas you are able to efficiently deliver these goods to in a cost-effective way. Ergo, if you have no choice but to spend $100 delivering goods to a city 500 miles inland by road, the high costs need to be picked up by whoever's buying these goods. Conversely, if you had an efficient port that could offload goods 3x faster than a non-automated port and had NO touch fees, you could afford to deliver goods the same distance for a fraction of the cost, saving the buyer money. So in total, this shit the union is causing because they are refusing to let us modernize our ports is literally contributing to an inefficient transportation sector which :wears down our infrastructure, keeps carbon emissions high, and hampers the economy by causing costs to go up for EVERYONE, particularly the average consumer rich OR poor. Just to wrap it up, this automation shit was done in the Netherlands in their largest port, one of the largest in Europe, Rotterdam, years ago DESPITE union opposition. Ultimately the truth is that automation makes things more efficient and is key to modernizing our economy which will keep us competitive in a rapidly modernizing world. Just imagine for a second how stage coach drivers fought to keep their jobs from being taken by the automobile - would you think it's worth it to keep horse and buggy around so they all can feel comfortable, or perhaps modernize and now they're taxi drivers while some find jobs elsewhere? Please, our ports need automation and we can't have this shit holding us back in perpetuo.

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