What do you do when you want chili, you’re missing several ingredients and you are snowed in? You improvise.

What do you do when you have ground chicken instead of ground beef, taco seasoning instead of chili mix, and the only canned tomatoes you can find is vegetarian vegetable soup? You sauté your chicken add taco seasoning add a bit of chili powder, garlic and onion powder, red pepper flakes and black pepper. Open cans of soup, add pinto beans, drain whole kernel corn and add a couple of jalapeños. I like spicy chili! The vegetable soup didn’t have as much tomato flavor as I like, so I added a squeeze of ketchup. Simmer a while and serve nice and hot.