Yes! This is wonderful chili. Sometime if you want, try using 1/2# or so, to your taste, of mild Italian sausage (I find it ground up in one store here, but links would work, too) in addition to your ground beef/chuck. I add a little bit of beef bouillon and we do the brown sugar vs white. Years ago we drove to San Francisco from Wisconsin and ate in some 'greasy spoon' truckstop restaurants. They had the best chili and I spent years trying to find the secret ingredient to make mine taste the same. Much later I found it was nothing more than brown sugar.
PS Beef stew tastes even better with a little Italian sausage or bratwurst chunks added to it.
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