Oh FGS, I have become so incapable of cooking the most simple things.....

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my chilli is more like soup. have added red lentils, but still to liquidy, what can I do?

why am I so crap??

cook it on a highish heat to reduce the amount of liquid in it? Keep stirring occasionally to stop it catching on the bottom.

are you cooking it with the lid off to allow liquid / steam to escape?

if desperate you could add cornflower to thicken it up a bit?

thank you , am doing that.. have been for the last hour and a half

i made xmas lunch for 18 last year, why can;t i make a sodding chilli?? well???

cornflour? will it not go lumpy?

Or you could add arrowroot if you've got some. Sometimes when these things cool down they're not as liquid as they are when they're piping hot. it might be worth letting it go cold. Perhaps you can then spoon off some liquid.

Mix the cornflour in a little cold water first then mix it in to the chilli.

Could the mince have had a lot of water in it?

I bought a piece of lamb yesterday and tried to do Jamie Oliver's 4 hour lamb and it ended up almost stewed cos so much water came out of it.

more tomato puree...mince.....chilli powder?

ok, will try the corn flour , thank you

i take it no-one wants to tell me why i am so crap jolly good, as you were ! ..

are you perhaps up the duff??

nooooooooooooooooooooo!!

i think i am just overtired. and trying to MN, cook, tidy the lounge and hoover the kitchen and make soup simultaneously

That was my first thought Waynetta.

Breadcrumbs for the chilli.

really, being pregnant makes you a rubbish cook !?

Lulu - if you thinkg you are trying to make soup, perhaps that's why your chilli looks like soup.....are you perhaps not making chilli at all, and are just going mad thinking you are???

you are not funny. is there any such thing as chilli soup?

There could well be now!!! Get some French bread and serve it as a hearty soup!

You did say "i think i am just overtired. and trying to MN, cook, tidy the lounge and hoover the kitchen and make soup simultaneously ", hence my (and your) confusion!

LOL !i am making soup. chicken soup. not chilli soup.

I thought you were making chilli when did the chicken go in?

Jesus woman, stop showing off. One homecooked meal a week is enough....
Particularly for someone in your condition

the chicken was last nights carcass!

is there a 'sorry i started this thread ' emoticon...

Right, so now you are showing off that not only did you do a roast dinner yesterday, you are being frugal and Nigella-ish and making soup out of the remnants.

Have you been tempted to add coal to it?

do you want to make me cry? Do you??

I don't think coal would thicken it.

Of course not Lulu
Here - have a g+t.