Chili

My significant other got this recipe for tomato less chili from his brother. No tomatoes, just meat, chiles, garlic, red pepper, cumin seeds, paprika, salt, sugar and beef suet. That is it. Beef suet is something to behold, let me tell you. The fat from the kidney of a cow is something unlike any other form of fat that I have seen. It is chunky, grisly, and slimy all at the same time. You fry the meat in the fatty stuff, so you end up with some greasy meaty goodness. The chiles are soaked, chopped, and pureed with all the other ingredients, then mixed with the stewed meat. As all the components simmer together the chili turns into a beautiful dark crimson color. A bit of corn meal is added to thicken the vat of mouthwatering tastiness, and you end up with a bowl of tangy chili.
My only critique, is that we should have chopped the meat into smaller pieces or got ground meat. We used beef stew meat that was already cut, and we even cut it up smaller, but even smaller would have been better. Also, it felt like the chili was missing something. Next time we will definitely have to give it an extra boost.