Tom Papoutsis: Hi, were back with Tom Papoutsis, Fairfax County, Fire And Rescue, McLean Fire Station 1. Weve been making Three Alarm Chili today. The chilies have been sitting here in simmering for couple of hours. Its actually started to coming together back whenever we added all these ingredients and every thing and were at the point now where we are ready plate this up.

I want to give it a good stir here and we want to take a look at it, I will try to possibly get a good tilt for you. So you can see, this is what were looking at. I mean its got a wonderful color, wonderful flavor when we tasted it was really good. The vegetables have all cooked down very nicely for us, the smell is wonderful, we do have plenty of cumin in there, which remember, thats the key ingredient. Okay, so it looks wonderful, were going to give it a shot and we are going to see. This is how we serve it. Now, remember you can serve this by itself but in the fire house what we typically serve it with is a couple of different things.

The guys like corn bread; they love corn bread with the chili. The other thing they like is they enjoy macaroni, so they can have chili macaroni with cheese. So macaroni, corn bread or you can use like a French bread or even an Italian bread to go along with it. Were going to garnish this with a little bit of onion. Weve got some diced onion here, so we are just going to kind of throw some onion on there, very nice. We take a little bit of Co-Jack cheese and were going to sprinkle it some Co-Jack, just like that and you want to make it look little fancy, just take a little bit of hot sauce and maybe just a couple of dots of hot sauce all around the edge, if anybody wants a little extra heat, there you are and there it is.

That is our Firehouse Three Alarm Chili.