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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8134142" data-attributes="member: 7016699">So, Thanksgiving dinner was a mildly catastrophic mess--nothing so bad the kitchen being unusable, but probably the biggest mess I've made in more than a decade.We were making chili verde (because our Thanksgiving tradition is to not make a traditional Thanksgiving dinner) from a recipe from Cook's Illustrated. We had pretty good success with it before, but we tried to streamline it and ended up putting (effectively) salsa into fat that was way (way, way) too hot, and we ended up with something that looked an awful lot like a volcanic mud pot.Clean up was an adventure, but the chili tasted good ~2 hours later (even though I suffered a brain-cramp and added the fresh cilantro before putting it in the oven).We have decided that we want to revise the recipe so it works better for us, and so we don't have the temptation to streamline in the future.</blockquote>