I looked at the remaining kidney beans, and I really felt that they weren’t going to make a substantial meal, so I bunged a load of black eyed beans into soak. I know you don’t generally need to soak/boil them, but these were quite elderly, so I thought it best.

On Sunday morning, I nipped round to the Turkish greengrocer and bought six red peppers ( Read more... )

I put a stack of kidney beans into to soak on Thursday night, and boiled them up in the slow cooker on Friday. I really do recommend slow cookers for beans - they don’t fill the kitchen with steam, they don’t need topping up, the beans don’t stick.

On Saturday, I made a tuna and bean salad with what I was hoping would be half the beans, but for ( Read more... )

We had a couple of roasted yellow peppers languishing in the fridge in a jar - not enough to do anything substantial with, but needed using up all the same.

Working at home, lunches get very samey - usually soup, bread and cheese or cold meat, although I have to be careful with cheese now :(   So occasionally, we branch out and do something a tad ( Read more... )