Rattlesnake Chili

 Ingredients

• One rattlesnake (minus: head, skin, innards, rattle)
• One pound Santa Maria Pink Beans
• One packet McCormick's Chili Seasoning
• One onion
• One small New York Steak (bone in)
• One cup sliced mushrooms
• Another onion
• One small baking potato
• Green salad w/dressing

Presoak beans in cool water over night.  In morning, slice first onion and place in slow cooker, add coiled up rattlesnake carcass, and cover with drained beans.  Sprinkle chili powder over beans and cover all with fresh water.
Cook in slow cooker for 8 hours or until beans are tender. Stir occasionally through day.
1 hour before serving, scrub potato and place in oven to bake.
1/2 hour before serving, slice second onion and saute' over slow heat.  Add mushrooms in the last 10 minutes.
Broil steak to medium rare.
Serve Rattlesnake chili to husband, and enjoy steak, potato, and salad while watching husband (and soulmate) pick teeny-tiny fish like rattlesnake ribs from chili and teeth.