✓ BEANS ¤ Black beans (+ Supper*) ¤ Staples ¤ https://decemberleaf.livejournal.com/165842.html
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Staples
Bright Island:
¤ Simple black beans ¤ (make extra to freeze)
2 tablespoons water
1 onion (need 1-1/2 to 2 cups, cut and diced)
4 cloves garlic (need at least 1 tablespoon, finely cut)
2 cups dried black beans, rinsed but not soaked
6 cups of water
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of salt (later)
2 large or 4 small limes (or lemons) (need as much as 10 tablespoons of lime or lemon juice) (later),
&/or 1 4-fluid-ounce container (Grateful Harvest) organic Lime Shot or Lemon Shot (need 10 tablespoons)
small handful of parsley or cilantro,
or 1 teaspoon of ground coriander
handful of cut kale (optional)
rice or potatoes (optional)
§ Put several tablespoons of water into a large cooking pot.
§ Dice or finely dice 1 onion and add it to the pot.
§ Stir and sauté the onion slowly (@ 6, then 4, then 2) for 4 minutes or so, until it is translucent.
§ Cut, mince, and add 3 or 4 cloves of garlic and sauté the onion and garlic for 2 minutes more.
§ Rinse and add 2 cups of dried black beans. Add 6 cups of water and bring to a boil.
§ Turn down the heat from (the equivalent of) 6 to 4 to 2 or 1 and simmer the fragrant beans for 2 hours-or more likely 3 hours (depending on how old they are and how you like them), until they are tender. Check them and stir them every once in a while. Cover the pot after the first hour.
§ When the beans are ready, add up to 1/2 teaspoon of salt (optional).
§ Ream 2 to 4 limes (or lemons) and stir in as much as 10 tablespoons of lime juice or lemon juice. Taste for seasoning. (Or stir in up to 10 tablespoons of Lime or Lemon Shot, if you don't have enough fresh limes.)
§ Add some cilantro or parsley (or 1 teaspoon of ground coriander). Cut and stir in a large handful of finely cut kale.
§ Serve on its own, or with rice, or with potatoes; or add it to casseroles. It's fragrant and delicious served hot next to wedges of cold boiled potatoes-or served cold next to wedges of hot boiled potatoes.
§ Save, cover, and freeze leftover black beans in 2-cup portions.
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Simple black beans (Staples) -Adapted from John Donohue, http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2010/10/long-story-short-how-is-my-new-black-bean-recipe-going-to-turn-out.html. "I make these almost every week, and I never measure the cilantro. Just use a big bunch of it. Make sure to add the salt and lime juice at the end of cooking, and speaking of cooking, there have been days when I have started the beans on the stove in the morning, cooked them for an hour or two, turned them off, left the house, come back hours later, and finished the dish with the lime and salt. It's almost impossible to mess this up, so long as you leave enough time for it." http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2011/08/what-cooking-means-to-me-back-to-black-beans.html:
"This past weekend we were at my mother's house. Sunday morning I woke before everyone and slipped downstairs to the kitchen of my childhood. The clock on the wall that told me when to leave for the school bus is gone, but little else has changed. My mother still has an electric stove, and the wooden cabinets, flower-print wallpaper, and three-globe chandelier are all the same.
"On our recent vacation together, I cooked up a huge pot of my black beans, and they lasted all week. One of the people who seemed to be enjoying them the most was my mother. On this visit to her house I wanted to leave her with a batch of the beans, so she could eat them after we were gone.
"The house was quiet, and I had the kitchen all to myself as I started chopping the onion and garlic. When my heart wasn't in my throat, it was full of joy. Standing at the stove, I couldn't help but think of one thing-how many times did my mom slave away at this stove for me and my siblings?"
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Simple black beans (Staples) -Adapted from John Donohue, http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2011/08/what-cooking-means-to-me-back-to-black-beans.html; also http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2010/10/long-story-short-how-is-my-new-black-bean-recipe-going-to-turn-out.html. https://decemberleaf.livejournal.com/165842.html.
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"... the sweet-smelling beans. The kitchen had the Saturday night fragrance which had so haunted Thankful at school. She ate slowly and long with a deep savoring of home."
Mabel Robinson, Bright Island (1937; 2012), http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Island-Mabel-L-Robinson/dp/037597136X?ie=UTF8&keywords=Mabel%20Robinson&qid=1463238360&ref_=sr_1_2&s=books&sr=1-2: page 217; page 222. https://decemberleaf.livejournal.com/165842.html.
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Staples
Bright Island:
¤ Simple black beans ¤ (make extra to freeze)
2 tablespoons water
1 onion (need 1-1/2 to 2 cups, cut and diced)
4 cloves garlic (need at least 1 tablespoon, finely cut)
2 cups dried black beans, rinsed but not soaked
6 cups of water
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of salt (later)
2 large or 4 small limes (or lemons) (need as much as 10 tablespoons of lime or lemon juice) (later),
&/or 1 4-fluid-ounce container (Grateful Harvest) organic Lime Shot or Lemon Shot (need 10 tablespoons)
small handful of parsley or cilantro,
or 1 teaspoon of ground coriander
handful of cut kale (optional)
rice or potatoes (optional)
§ Put several tablespoons of water into a large cooking pot.
§ Dice or finely dice 1 onion and add it to the pot.
§ Stir and sauté the onion slowly (@ 6, then 4, then 2) for 4 minutes or so, until it is translucent.
§ Cut, mince, and add 3 or 4 cloves of garlic and sauté the onion and garlic for 2 minutes more.
§ Rinse and add 2 cups of dried black beans. Add 6 cups of water and bring to a boil.
§ Turn down the heat from (the equivalent of) 6 to 4 to 2 or 1 and simmer the fragrant beans for 2 hours-or more likely 3 hours (depending on how old they are and how you like them), until they are tender. Check them and stir them every once in a while. Cover the pot after the first hour.
§ When the beans are ready, add up to 1/2 teaspoon of salt (optional).
§ Ream 2 to 4 limes (or lemons) and stir in as much as 10 tablespoons of lime juice or lemon juice. Taste for seasoning. (Or stir in up to 10 tablespoons of Lime or Lemon Shot, if you don't have enough fresh limes.)
§ Add some cilantro or parsley (or 1 teaspoon of ground coriander). Cut and stir in a large handful of finely cut kale.
§ Serve on its own, or with rice, or with potatoes; or add it to casseroles. It's fragrant and delicious served hot next to wedges of cold boiled potatoes-or served cold next to wedges of hot boiled potatoes.
§ Save, cover, and freeze leftover black beans in 2-cup portions.
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Simple black beans (Staples) -Adapted from John Donohue, http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2010/10/long-story-short-how-is-my-new-black-bean-recipe-going-to-turn-out.html. "I make these almost every week, and I never measure the cilantro. Just use a big bunch of it. Make sure to add the salt and lime juice at the end of cooking, and speaking of cooking, there have been days when I have started the beans on the stove in the morning, cooked them for an hour or two, turned them off, left the house, come back hours later, and finished the dish with the lime and salt. It's almost impossible to mess this up, so long as you leave enough time for it." http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2011/08/what-cooking-means-to-me-back-to-black-beans.html:
"This past weekend we were at my mother's house. Sunday morning I woke before everyone and slipped downstairs to the kitchen of my childhood. The clock on the wall that told me when to leave for the school bus is gone, but little else has changed. My mother still has an electric stove, and the wooden cabinets, flower-print wallpaper, and three-globe chandelier are all the same.
"On our recent vacation together, I cooked up a huge pot of my black beans, and they lasted all week. One of the people who seemed to be enjoying them the most was my mother. On this visit to her house I wanted to leave her with a batch of the beans, so she could eat them after we were gone.
"The house was quiet, and I had the kitchen all to myself as I started chopping the onion and garlic. When my heart wasn't in my throat, it was full of joy. Standing at the stove, I couldn't help but think of one thing-how many times did my mom slave away at this stove for me and my siblings?"
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Simple black beans (Staples) -Adapted from John Donohue, http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2011/08/what-cooking-means-to-me-back-to-black-beans.html; also http://www.stayatstovedad.com/stay_at_stove_dad/2010/10/long-story-short-how-is-my-new-black-bean-recipe-going-to-turn-out.html. https://decemberleaf.livejournal.com/165842.html.
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"... the sweet-smelling beans. The kitchen had the Saturday night fragrance which had so haunted Thankful at school. She ate slowly and long with a deep savoring of home."
Mabel Robinson, Bright Island (1937; 2012), http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Island-Mabel-L-Robinson/dp/037597136X?ie=UTF8&keywords=Mabel%20Robinson&qid=1463238360&ref_=sr_1_2&s=books&sr=1-2: page 217; page 222. https://decemberleaf.livejournal.com/165842.html.
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