National Chili Day (or so I'm told)

I know I heard it somewhere, however after lots of googling and wikipediaing (two words which I know are not real), I just can't find an official "National Chili Day" website. Perhaps by this time next year, Hallmark will have come out with a card for this day, but for now, we decided to just honor it by making our own pot of chili.

We spent this past weekend with our friends Chris & Aimee down at their home in Richmond, VA. Chris is an avid hunter, and while he loves to hunt deer, he doesn't especially care much for the taste of it. This of course works out just fine with us, as we LOVE deer meat and are always happy to take it off his hands.

Everytime we get meat from him, we always make at least one batch of "Bambi Burgers" (yes, I realize that sounds awful, but really, can you think of a better name?), so we had those the other night.

We then used the left over meat that we had ground to make "Bambi Chili" (again, I'm all up for new name ideas.) This was the first time we'd used the deer meat to make chili, but really enjoyed how sweet it was. It was a nice change from ground beef or turkey that we usually use.

So thanks to Chris for snagging a few deer for us this past hunting season (even if you did have to take a bullett in your efforts) and here's hoping everyone has a very happy and tasty Chili Day!