Posse Stew (for groups down below)
#401 Can of Pinto Beans
# 401 can of Hominy (I like to use yellow but the whole country seems to have gone white)
#401 can of Diced tomatoes
1 Dice onion
1 # ground beef, cooked
1 can of diced green chiles ( I use 1/2 can of green chiles that I dice myself)
Red chile powder or taco seasonings to taste.
**Equal amounts of beans, hominy and diced tomatoes. I usually use beans I have cooked myself.
Dump (dumping is an important part of the technique here) all of the canned ingredients into a big pot; add seasonings and simmer while you brown the ground beef and onion until they are softened. Add to pot and check your seasonings. Simmer a while until the flavors are blended nicely and serve with corn bread, crackers or whatever sounds good to you. This has always gone like hotcakes when I have served it!
When you have a big crowd, there will always be some that want it hot as hades. I put a bottle of Tabasco or Frank's Hot Sauce where they can add it to their bowls. Yesterday we also had a bowl of HOT diced green chiles that had been given to us that we knew we would never eat (wimps here). The kids liked both.
Tonight I will post the amounts I used for about 75 people and the chicken soup as well.
Posse Stew for a Crowd---
This should make about 14 quarts of Posse Stew and serve about 28 - 30 people.
I just realized that this would be a little hard since I was using left-over beans and beef from our stake BBQ in November. So I will figure it as well as I can.
# Ten cans hold 3 1/2 quarts of food. Did you know that? We always call them gallon . . NOT! So to fill young people, we get the big paper bowls that hold "20 oz." . That will give you a little head room with a good sized bowl of soup or chile. Keeping that in mind, here is how I start out the Posse Stew:
1 - #10 can of pinto beans
1 - #10 can of hominy
1 - #10 can of diced tomatoes
1/2 - # 10 can of diced green chiles (at home I often chop up a #401 can of "Hatch whole chiles" that come
in pairs at Costco)
2 # ground beef
1-2 diced large onions
Serve with cornbread, biscuits, grated cheese crackers . . it's all good.
This should make about 14 quarts of Posse Stew and serve about 28 - 30 people.
