The pound cake looks great, it would have gone well as a desert for our homemade chili well the beans were canned beans, and the corn was canned corn, and the broth mix was canned, and we didn't process the ground beef ourselves, nor did we grow the carrots and potatoes,some of my spices are getting old, will need to refresh them soon. The onion was also grown by someone else, the one roma tomato I used was grown in mexico, and I think the red bell pepper was from a greenhouse in canada. I'm not sure where the celery came from, but I know we didn't grow it.

I did chop up the veggies, hand measure out the right amount of spices into my and watched and stirred the pot while every simmered together in nice hot avocado oil and real butter. Oh and I almost forgot I did add a couple packets to the onion, celery, pepper mix to get that nice caramelization done,

I do the broth part, my wife does the meat and corn bread and potatoes and carrots and then she watch everything simmer together. So while not a 100% homemade chili it was certainly better than anything out of a can.

Glad to see your post, and glad you are still around kicking it with the kitties.