Food, Food, Glorious Food!
This has nothing to do with writing or fandom or anything else.
This is about FOOD! :-)
Before I toddled off to bed around 3 this morning, I put some beans in the crock pot. I have a jar in the pantry of mixed beans (picked up a bag of each type one day and mixed 'em together). Being lazy, and since it *was* 3 AM, I tossed in some crushed garlic and powdered onion along with the cayenne and chili powder.
Slept.
Got up to find they were cooking nicely. The only problem with the crock pot is that the liquid really doesn't reduce very well. So, I dipped a bunch out, put it in a pot on the stove (the same one I'd started them in earlier - boiled them briefly to start and then drained the water to carry off the gassy enzyme ;-), added the Rotel tomatoes and proceeded to reduce it. At some point, I remembered I'd forgotten the chocolate, so I tossed a couple of tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa into the reducing liquid before dumping it all back into the pot.
Time passed.
Found there was still too much liquid (but getting close), so I dipped out some more and put it on the stove to reduce. Wavered between cooking risotto and opening a can of corn. Opening a can won out. ;-) Dumped it into the reducing liquid to heat (after draining it). Once it was as thick as I was going to get it and the corn was hot, it all went back into the pot.
More time passed.
Couldn't stand it any more and got a bowl. ;-) This is, undoubtedly, one of the best pots of beans I've ever cooked. Got my second serving at my elbow. As soon as it drops below temperatures best measured in kelvin, I'll dig in. I know what I'm going to be eating for a couple of days. :-)
This is about FOOD! :-)
Before I toddled off to bed around 3 this morning, I put some beans in the crock pot. I have a jar in the pantry of mixed beans (picked up a bag of each type one day and mixed 'em together). Being lazy, and since it *was* 3 AM, I tossed in some crushed garlic and powdered onion along with the cayenne and chili powder.
Slept.
Got up to find they were cooking nicely. The only problem with the crock pot is that the liquid really doesn't reduce very well. So, I dipped a bunch out, put it in a pot on the stove (the same one I'd started them in earlier - boiled them briefly to start and then drained the water to carry off the gassy enzyme ;-), added the Rotel tomatoes and proceeded to reduce it. At some point, I remembered I'd forgotten the chocolate, so I tossed a couple of tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa into the reducing liquid before dumping it all back into the pot.
Time passed.
Found there was still too much liquid (but getting close), so I dipped out some more and put it on the stove to reduce. Wavered between cooking risotto and opening a can of corn. Opening a can won out. ;-) Dumped it into the reducing liquid to heat (after draining it). Once it was as thick as I was going to get it and the corn was hot, it all went back into the pot.
More time passed.
Couldn't stand it any more and got a bowl. ;-) This is, undoubtedly, one of the best pots of beans I've ever cooked. Got my second serving at my elbow. As soon as it drops below temperatures best measured in kelvin, I'll dig in. I know what I'm going to be eating for a couple of days. :-)