Beef-Perfected Crockpot Chili Mac

Okay folks look I'm back at it again but this time I'm gonna do something a little bit more friendlier you know like for the for the working man or you know even if you got a lot if you're busy you got a lot of stuff to do that's why these crock pot videos come in clutch right so check this out if you guys ever had you know a chili mac you're gonna love this one right here all right so look as you guys can see right here look we got a couple of cans of these five you know roasted uh diced tomatoes this is my tool of choice whenever I gotta have diced tomatoes right and then you know of course we got cheese onions you know I'm gonna be using my seasoning this right here is that a you know the a I kind of like put this in everything between this and the creole kick these are my go-tos right and I got an assortment of things back here you know like these are more ingredients don't forget they on my website it's smokingandgrillingwithab.com and that's w-i-t-a-b.com and then of course you got to have the pasta all right so look the first thing we're gonna do is we're getting ready to go ahead and you know just put a little bit of extra virgin olive oil in here this is garlic infused by branch and vine upland this is what I use this is my go-to for those of you guys that are new right I already got a flame underneath the bottom in here you're starting to get warm oh I can smell the garlic kicking back I start with a medium flame just to get everything nice and warm I make my adjustments once I put my beef in right if I want to raise the temperature or not so what I want to do is I want to go ahead and brown it so we'll let that go oh I can hear it it's about ready right now let's just go ahead meanwhile what we're gonna do now is just to prep all right now we let that build up a little bit of a crust now I'm gonna go in here and break this up now all we're doing now folks is just going ahead and uh browning this but this is 80 20 I know some of you guys are probably trying to figure out why I added my own oil to it I love it for the flavor you know I mean it does something just to it and you don't want it to like initially stick even though my pan is well seasoned I just like to always add just a little bit until it can render its own fat all right so if you look at the stage that we have it at right here look I'm looking at my fire making sure I'm you know at a good medium I don't move everything up to like a medium high right so just looking at this looking at the color and the browning where I'm at this is where I like to add my onion and then I go ahead and get my garlic right now you notice the part that makes me happy now we just want to mince and want to mince on top right so that way we can control how long this is in the heat all right so we got that going now let's go ahead and just get this mixed you should be able to smell right off the back just the onion and the garlic all right now this is where I like to go ahead and add you know my chili powder right we'll add that now those of you guys like to have like a little bit of heat let me just grab that right now let's just address that you know I mean I got a little cayenne pepper it's really up to you how much you put in here I'm gonna just say about a half not even half you know I mean I'll just dust it just very lightly you know what I mean and then I come with a little smoked paprika now we go ahead and just give that a mix you can see it right there look you see how the smoked paprika and all of that changes the color of the ground beef all right then last but not least I got the a seasoning right it's the combination of everything that I put in here right now that makes this chili mac way different than what you get in the can if you guys are buying that in the stores or whatever you know what I mean uh trust me you can make this at home you can double triple quadruple this recipe especially if you got a big family these are like I'm gonna just say these this recipe right here is very very kid-friendly I would just watch how much cayenne I put in there right for me I just like to be able to have just enough you know I mean to let me know it's got a little you know heat to it but other than that that's it now I know we're putting this in the crock pot this is what we're getting ready to do I don't know about y'all man these cast iron skillets they heavy all right so now we're gonna add our fire roasted you know diced tomatoes right so I'm not doing any draining I'm adding that to it just like this now when it come to these beans right here we're gonna drain these beans all right so now we're gonna add you know our pasta right now notice I didn't even you know boil these get them parboiled and nothing like that we just add them just like this all right and now one of the things you didn't see look I got some beef stock we just add ourselves about a cup right and this is what we're gonna you know cook the pasta in all right so as you guys can see when you look in here this is what we're working with right now you can only imagine instead of us you know parboiling our you know pasta right it's just gonna cook in here now I know the times will be way different but trust me folks we're just gradual you know the way it cooks you know gradually with the heat this will go ahead and you know come out just perfect once you have it all mixed up like you have it we're gonna put the top on here and that then it comes time to set our time there's two different settings you guys can use so I'm gonna go ahead and hit power right we're gonna select and I'm gonna go with high if whatever it is high you can times it by two and that'll be your low setting right so now we come up let's get a time I'm gonna go three hours right so I'm gonna leave it alone this one automatically starts on its own so it's going three hours now if I wanted to do this on low what would it be y'all got it six hours there you go all right so listen where we at right now is I only got a few more minutes before this is ready right I don't want to take the top off or do nothing like that but we got to add cheese I saved this step for last because we're gonna add it get it moving around let it be nice and creamy on the inside now let's talk about cheese you know if you've been following me for a minute I tell everybody I'm starting to hear everybody starting to say it now you want to grade your own cheese right when you guys buy that regular cheese in the store you know I mean it's got like a little a waxy little film in it that way they don't stick together all the little shreds right so grade your own it melts better and all of that right now I'm just trying to figure out what size I'm gonna go ahead and go large I had this sitting out just for a little while so it's nice and soft right so we're just gonna go ahead and get ourselves about two cuts now after I did the large size as you guys can see I come here on this side and now I'm gonna grade it a little small right this is so that I can put some on the top you know I mean this helped me with the pictures and it just adds some more cheese to it also you can't really never have too much cheese all right cheese is grated let's go ahead and just break this a little bit let that let that steam out that way I can look at it and tell you right now it's just right I can see the texture so what I want to do is I want to get in here with my spatula you know and just run this oh yeah look at that and then remember we had that smaller one the smallest shred right we just add that on the top like that and this will melt super quick then when you go ahead and plate or whatever you're going to do you know I mean put it on a plate in a bowl however you do it right you can sprinkle a little bit of smaller size you know shred okay folks look as you can see look this is the process that brought you guys here right so this is the bowl that you saw that we shot right now so this is what it looked like you guys can come in here and see I tried to make it a star but you see that right there the green that's parsley put that on top you can see the way that remember those little small shredded cheese you put that on top look how it spreads you know what I mean or it isn't when your food look good it tastes good right anyway you fooling with me so I'm not gonna tell you nothing wrong and you know what only thing left to do is to really give it a taste right a taste test so I got somebody on here I'm gonna bring them on here so this is Kayla this is my daughter now she's been in videos every now and then so look do your thing there you go get in there you don't blow it or nothing huh is it good no don't tell me you gotta tell them hey listen I know it's good I want you guys to try it look I got a little g-boy you know what I mean hey Aiden if you're watching this video when they're you know published man this go out to you tell your mama to make this for you so you guys don't forget go to the website smokingandgrillingwithab.com and that's w-i-t-a-b.com you know what I mean and I got it all written out for you how to follow the time degrees and everything with that being said look this is my daughter Kayla you know what and we out peace