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Winter Comfort Food!

DrEntropy

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Yesterday I mangl'd together a big pot o' navy bean soup, render'd down good 'n proper by about 1600.
Loaf of Pan Cubano and butter. Wonderful "peasant food"! :laugh:

Thought it'd be interesting to compare formulas:

I soak the 1# bag o' beans for about six hours, rinse and add:

Remainder of the New Year ham (about a pound of it diced into half-inch cubes) & hamhock.

2 medium sized spuds, peel'd & shredded
1 red bell pepper, sliced thin and diced into 1/2-inch lengths
2 medium sized onions, diced
1 small habanero minced, seeds an' all
3 good celery stalks sliced in 1/2-inch bits along with th "greens" chopped up
2 carrots, sliced into thin "rounds"

Water fill the pot to cover the beautiful contents, bring to boil and lower heat to simmer for three to four hours, covered. Stir every time you fetch a beer from th' fridge.

Portion it out, salt/pepper to taste. Bread 'n butter for scoopin' it out & cleaning th' bowl for round two...

Can alternately be used as wallpaper paste. :thumbsup: :laugh:

...I'll be putterin' around th' hovel th' next few days. :smirk:
 
Makin' shrimp etouffee' tomorrow for a little Louisiana get-together at friends' house on Sunday.

Also on the menu will be gumbo, red beans and rice, and, of course, King Cake!
 
Had shrimp gumbo the other night, homemade vegetable soup w/cornbread another night, chili w/cornbread still another.....all those are good cold weather comfort food.
 
...my better half got back in the kitchen and made some <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">great</span></span> drop biscuits yesterday. Also made some homemade soft pretzels, turned out well. Today it was chocolate cake before breakfast and she is starting on a fish chowder for lunch. I'm going to be putting back on the 25 pounds that rolled off last spring.
 
Doc, get some Zataran's liquid crab boil and put about 1/2 or a full tea spoon of it in, depending on how big yer pot is. GREAT flavor. Bay leaf doesn't hurt either. Then agin, that's fer kindney beans.
 
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