Mexican Fish and Black Bean Wraps
I always knew it was going to be challenging to get this to look attractive, I didn’t think the picture would come out quite as badly as this though. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by all food bloggers (well, Stephen and I at least) that the quality of the picture often bears little relation to […]
Read More..>>Slow Simmered Bean Soup with Mint and Pasilla Chile
This was good, really good but that’s all I can remember about it. One of the problems with food blogging (for me at least) is that often, once I’ve committed my thoughts and feelings about a dish to the page and hit submit is that I tend to forget the finer details, safe in the […]
Read More..>>Frijoles with Chorizo
I had a plan for tonight’s dinner, an idea that’s been bubbling away in the back of my mind for a while waiting until I had some spare time to experiment in the kitchen. This wasn’t it. Stephen still isn’t feeling well and requested a plain, baked potato for dinner. I thought about going ahead […]
Read More..>>Thakkali Payaru – Black-eyed Beans with Spinach and Tomato
At work a few days ago, I got into an in-depth discussion about black-eyed beans in Indian dishes. The discussion triggered last night’s dinner, but a colleague at work also presented me one morning with a photocopy of a recipe that he said was brilliant, one of his favourites. We considered making it but didn’t […]
Read More..>>Tortilla Casserole, aka Mexican Lasagne
When paging through Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen, we found something which we initially thought was a bit odd but strangely interesting – a Mexican version of lasagne, layered up with tortillas instead of lasagne sheets. We became determined to try it and thought that it would be a good way to use up the left […]
Read More..>>Four Bean Chilli
I won’t go into too much detail about this as we’ve cooked it several times before, albeit with varying varieties of bean (it’s a great way of using up small amounts of beans that are hanging around in the cupboard, just make sure they are of a similar size). What I did do differently this […]
Read More..>>Tuscan Bean Soup
This has been on our “to cook” list for some time and as soup season seems to be fully underway, tonight seemed like a good time to finally get on with it. As ever, Delia’s instructions were pointlessly long-winded but it was worth sticking with as the final result was pretty good. The blended beans […]
Read More..>>Chorizo, Beans and Kale
A fairly quick and easy dinner this evening, which was inspired by something similar that we saw on television over the weekend and then backed up by something in a Spanish cookbook. However, these both used chickpeas and there were various other different ingredients, so we are claiming this as our own. Mostly because it […]
Read More..>>Two Bean Chilli
Yes, three or even four bean chilli would have sounded better but I forgot that we had other beans hidden away when it came to soaking time last night. We ended up with black beans and haricot beans which worked well anyway. The basic recipe is based on our recently tweaked chilli con carne but […]
Read More..>>The Ultimate Chilli Con Carne
We’ve been using a variation of the same recipe for a long time, it’s a good dish but I always end up thinking it could be improved. Talking with a friend last week about the very same thing led to a huge chilli craving so, after some research, I thought I’d try some new ingredients […]
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