King's Crown wrote:
> Sorry this is turning out to be a long post, but I would seriously enjoy
> some suggestions on how to make the recipe better as it really had great
> chili flavor and great potential.
>
> I got this off the internet... *oh big surprise* anyhow it sounded good, but
> it was just missing an underlying flavor and I just couldn't tweek it enough
> to get it right. The "chili" flavoring of the recipe was just right really
> rich, warm and delicious, but it was almost like it was missing it's base of
> flavors. It would hit the tongue and make you think "wow this is really
> good", but then leave you hanging thinking "what is it missing." I didn't
> follow the recipe exactly and I put my changes in parenthesis. Any ideas?
[snip recipe]

The recipe looks complete to me and I don't see anything amiss with
your changes. I think it's likely that the missing underlying flavor
is red meat. If you had beef or pork or both in there it wouldn't be
"white chili" but you say "it was missing its base of flavors." No
matter what your brain tells you to expect when it sees "white chili",
your taste buds are expecting red meat. -aem