This is my dad’s chili recipe!!! ; I think I've mentioned before that chili (and its delicious brother: chili-mac) was my dad's specialty. I remember him telling me how to make it when I was pretty little. We would pick chile petins from the yard. Sometimes, he'd use venison. I heard all about how Texans don't put beans in chili. He measured all the spices in "palmfuls". I still think his chili is incredible.