The chili is in the fridge, awaiting tomorrow's party. I think about 30 will come; could be as few as 20, as many as 50. haha! New Mexico Green Chili Stew is a very foreign concept around here. I made it a couple of years ago and you know who loved it? A Moslem freind. I told her (and a couple of Jewish freinds) it was pork, and her response was that she doesn't eat pork in Jordan and in Pakistan, but when in the Midwest she's always dying for anything spicy (and it is spicy, not hot). It was scary overall because I was in the middle of cutting up the many pounds of pork (I used pork butt this time, and it was quite greasy, I had to trim a lot of fat off, but if you use a leaner cut it doesn't taste right) and when hubby came screaming in, trying to get his tshirt full of wasps off, I was up to my elbows in pork fat! All's well that ends well. It was a bit complicated overall because hubby had just been diagnosed with diabetes on top of everything else, and we've been dealing with that when this happened. If I do say so myself, the chili is delicious. It just occurred to me that if I have leftovers, I can add a can of coconut milk to it, some more veggies, some herbs from the garden, some heat, pour over rice, and it will make a great Thai green curry. I'm always looking for an angle to make 2 or 3 completely different meals from one big one.