black bean and sweet potato chili!

i made sweet potato and black bean chili last night, because it was time to cook and i realized that i thought we had all the ingredients.

also, i decided to just kind of wing it, for once, and not really follow any specific recipe. and, you know what? it worked! also, its kind of impossible to mess up chili.

i chopped up an onion and some garlic and let them brown for a bit. in the meantime, i chopped up the biggest sweet potato EVAR, along with some carrot coins, and popped them in the microwave for a few minutes to get a little head start in the softening process, since i was hungry.

i added cumin, chili powder, and some chipotle to the onions/garlic, and, after a minute and a spash of water, dumped in the sweet potatoes and carrots with a small amount of tomatoes in juice.

later on came salsa, more tomatoes, black beans, and, at the last minute, some frozen organic corn...

here you see some chili pictured with a bit of cheez and a lovely organic blue corn chip. easy-peasy, as the cool kids like to say.