I’ve got soup on the brain lately. Can you blame me? It’s been freezing out! Anyhow, chili is not soup, so I’m okay with posting this right after another soup recipe. Also, I’ve got Buffalo sauce and chili on the brain. More on that next week. Despite the fact that I’ve got more Buffalo sauce and chili forthcoming, I had to make this one. I woke up the other morning and the idea of chili with Buffalo sauce popped into my head. How could I not explore that concept? And how could I not do so in advance of the Superbowl, when everyone is all about Buffalo everything and all kinds of chili. Turns out I wasn’t the first to come up with this idea, but all the other Buffalo chili recipes I came across on the interwebs involved chicken. Also, they didn’t involve chili powder. I get that Buffalo sauce is made from cayenne peppers, which are a type of chili pepper, but I thought chili powder was a specific requirement of chili. Maybe I’m mistaken. In any event, my vegan Buffalo chili involves some chili powder, albeit a bit less than the half a jar or so that I normally heap into my homemade chili recipes. Other than that, it’s just lots of beans, veggies, and spicy Buffalo sauce. Nice and spicy, so good, and definitely worth trying even if you’re not planning on watching the bit game this year.
