Mom's Chili

Mince
3 lg cloves garlic

Chop
1 lg onion
Saute onion with olive oil

Add garlic. Crumble in
1 lb hamburger

Stir well.
Add
1 tiny dried red pepper, cut up with scissors
2 T cumin
2 T chili powder
2 T oregano
1 sm can diced tomatoes
2 sm cans kidney beans, undrained (or 2 cp dry plus water)
salt and pepper
a bit of sugar
Either
1 sm can tomato sauce
1 lg can stewed tomatoes
-or-
1 sm can tomato paste
1 lg can tomato sauce

Rinse cans with water and pour that into pan.

Cook well.
Add
handful of pasta

Cook till done.