Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
becca's beans 'n mushrooms
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Becca's Beans 'N Mushrooms
Ingredients:
1 pound dried black eyed beans --- picked, washed, and drained
2 pints water
1/2 pound mushrooms, thinly sliced
6 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon whole cumin seeds
1 stick cinnamon
1 large onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped fine
1 [14 ounce size] can tomatoes, peeled and chopped
2 teaspoon ground coriander seeds
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon salt
black pepper to taste
3 tablepsoons fresh parsley, chopped
Instructions:
1) Put the beans and water into a heavy pot and bring to boil a full boil.
2) Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for about two minutes.
3) Turn off the heat and let the pot sit, undisturbed, for one hour.
4) Heat the oil and saut� the cumin seeds and cinnamon stick
for a few seconds.
5) Add onion and garlic, and saut� 'til the edges begin to brown.
6) Add mushrooms and fry 'til the mushrooms begin to soften.
7) Add tomatoes, ground coriander, ground cumin, tumeric,
and cayenne pepper.
8) Cook and stir for one or two minutes.
9) Cover, reduce heat, and cook for another ten minutes.
10) Turn off the heat.
11) Bring the beans to a boil again.
12) Cover and simmer for twenty minutes, or 'til tender.
13) Add the mushroom mixture to the beans and water.
14) Add salt, pepper, and fresh parsley.
15) Stir and cook 'til mixture is simmerin'.
16) Continue to simmer, uncovered, over medium heat
for another thirty minutes or so.
17) Stir occasionally.
18) Remove cinnamon stick prior to servin'.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
� Squirrel X / 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006Click here to read how this site is protected by copyright laws.