How Pressure Cooker 3 Bean Chili Could Make Betty Draper a Better Mother

If Betty Draper had an Instant Pot, she probably would have drank less, cooked more and still would have been left with plenty of…

Warriors Soup: in which I let Family and Fans down

I'll start with the appropriate apology. Warrior Fans, mea culpa. I'm sorry.  The Warriors lost it in game 7, because I f…

Pressure Cooking Black Beans With Sofrito in Under an Hour

Think that making black bean with dried beans is only for the weekend, when you can do an overnight soak of the beans and put asi…

Go Home Charros, You're Drunk!

I love me some Mexican style, soupy beans but I can never decide between Charros (named after the Mexican cowboys of Norther Mexi…

Chicken Tortilla Soup: Repurposing Pain

For the dear and the few who got me through...you know who you are It's taken me a long while to get back to writing, mostly …

Got An Hour? Then You Have Time To Make Chili In a Pressure Cooker

I have been having more adventures with my Instant Pot this week - this chili, a tomato based meat sauce for pasta and another ch…

Uguisu-mame

Green peas boiled down with sugar.  鶯豆。 It is a beautiful name: "uguisu-mame" literally means "bush warbler beans&…

Roasted Cauliflower Chickpea Salad: My practical side

My friends often sit by and cringe as they watch the choices I make in the name of practiciality.  For example, to commemorate 19…

Sayaendo

Snowpea . (Pisum sativum var. saccharatum). サヤエンドウ。 A variety of pea eaten whole in its pod while still unripe. The pod is soft b…

Garbanzo Beans with Sun Dried Tomato Dressing: For all complaints, my name is James

Friend SH and I have recently been lamenting how much our families complain about the food that we put in front of them.  It'…

Sekihan

Red rice , eaten on festive occasions. 赤飯。 Obtained by steaming azuki beans with glutinous rice ( mochigome ). Often toasted bla…

Kuromame

Black soybeans. 黒豆、くろまめ。Glycine max. Also called "kurodaizu." The black color is caused by  the presence of anthocyani…