Recipes! Send Us Your Recipes!

I am forever getting email from folks, mostly expatriates in faraway lands, that are looking for authentic WVHD chili recipes. We've decided to add a section to the website where we can publish recipes, but we need the help of our readers. Basically, we need you to send us your recipes!

A few guidelines:

• We need chili recipes and we need slaw recipes.

• Please don't send one you've never tried.

• If you have a recipe from your church or school, it probably feeds hundreds. Scale it down for us, please.

• Let us know what part of the state the recipe is from.

Send your submittals to

info at wvhotdogs dot com

(You realize, of course, that I formatted the email address like that to discourage spambots, but I trust you can interpret how to format it in your email.)

Once we get a few recipes collected we'll be adding the new pages to the site. In the meantime, here's one that I have found and tested. It tastes like North Central WV HDJ sauce:

• 2 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
• 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup tomato sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon salt
• 1/2 tablespoon pepper
• 1/2 tablespoon cumin
• 1/2 tablespoon cayenne
  
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon chili powder

Crumble ground beef and brown over medium heat with onion. Stir in water, and mash ground beef thoroughly. Stir in all ingredients. Reduce heat to low; simmer, 60 to 90 minutes. Then, raise heat and cook at high temperature, stirring constantly, until the sauce is dark brown.