Recipe Thread

[RICHARD]

Hey Richard, how do i make refried beans with black beans?? any other recipes for black beans besides soup??

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I am not a huge black beans fan. I think I have had them twice in my life.

To refry them?

LOL, I tried to figure out, for the longest time, why the are refried when they are fried once!

Grab a can or make a pot, grab a skillet, some lard-you can use oil-BACON grease will rock your world- drain the beans setting the broth aside.

Toss the beans in to the hot oil and start to smash them with a tater masher.
Add the broth to get them to the consistency you want.

It's the same recipe for pinto beans. You can add cheese to them after you mash to get them nice and thick for burritos or tacos. Again, use bacon grease to get them started.


Pig grease goes good with everything- I swear to god this is true.

People in Mexico use lard to smear on a baby's bottom to help with diaper rash.

[jennielynn1970]

I love black beans, but am not a fan of the brown refried beans that are served in most restaurants. Those are pintos? I'll remember to stay away from those cans cause I didn't like them. Unless they taste better unmashed?? I remember having these purplish refried beans a year or so ago, omg.... they were heaven!!! I think you said then they must have been black beans. If they were, I have to figure out how to make things with them. The cornbread salad kicked butt. I could have eaten the entire bowl myself. And I love black beans on nachos, I just don't know what else to do with them besides those little things.

[RICHARD]

I have to laugh. I went to my mom's house to root around the larder for stuff to make for Thanksgiving. I came across a can o' black beans.

I really laughed!

I also went to the Asian market on Wednesday to buy some stuff. I got oyster sause, sweet chili sauce, glass noodles, ginger, tea, wasabi shrimp chips, a huge bottle of soy sauce and some bok choy! I saw the baby bok choy and thought of Ms Hoppy and her love of the veggie.

I thought that I have bought about 40 dollars worth of stuff, but it came out to be 21 dollars. I purchased most of the stuff on sale. I love the oyster sauce and those we 99 cents a bottle!

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I got daring and made a tray of stuffing with the bok choy! I am waiting for it to cool down to see if there is any difference from regular celery!

This year was the third year that I have made our turkey and this year's was surprisingly good. I always expect a disaster but was very pleased with the results. I am not a fan of the dark meat but I have to say that it is the tastier part of the bird and has won another convert!

I will let you all know how the Turkey Chow Mein comes out!


LOL, I have to really start paying attention what I cook!

[jennielynn1970]

Richard, I just made the refried black beans. Not too shabby there, dude!! The bacon fat is heaven in it!! I added salt, pepper and adobo seasoning to it, as well as some garlic.

It's still not that same color that I saw at the one mexican place in New Hope. Those beans were more violet in color (a blue purple color).

I'm saving my mom and dad some of these beans, as they love refried beans. We'll see what they think about the bacon flavor and the fact that they're black beans.

[RICHARD]

Richard, I just made the refried black beans. Not too shabby there, dude!! The bacon fat is heaven in it!! I added salt, pepper and adobo seasoning to it, as well as some garlic.

Like WTF?

Are you doubting my culinary stylings?

You know what you next project is? Making them from scratch.!

I am stumped about the purple bean color, so I looked on the 'net and....There are purple wax beans, Royal Purple beans and Purple Pintos.


I have an idea that they are a "gourmet" or "vegetarian" fad. The purple pintos look like they are what you had at the restaurant. Soemtimes they crossbreed food and come up with a hybrid that ends up as a regional/seasonal/specialty offering.

Could you find out? Making a pot o'beans is really easy.


Buy your beans, wash them and rinse-Year ago you had to look for stones and dirt among them, They have cleaned up the packaging process since then, I haven't come across any for a while- Dump them into a pot and add water to cover. Bring to a boil and add water as you go along. The 'soupiness' of the beans depends on how much water you add. I like more beans than water, so I go easy. Then you can mash them.
Experiment with the salt and add the seasonings AFTER you cook them and before the mashing...
IDEA? Add cooked bacon and use the drippings for you mashing. Double the flavor!

I guess bacon goes with MANY things. Not just everything.

[jennielynn1970]

The restaurant doesn't have a website, but it's called the Blue Tortilla. They do refried black beans.... so how did they get them that color?? It better not have been food coloring, cause that is just wrong, lol!


I'm trying to find a recipe for Red Velvet Cake. For some reason I want to make it, it's so cheery looking. I just am skeptical about it not having enough chocolate flavor, and using so much food coloring. I'm not a fan of food coloring.

[RICHARD]

I made some tortillas with chimichurri sauce on them the other night.


I have a pizza stone so I stuck that in the oven, preheated it and did this...

I took some tortilla dough rolled it out and put it on the stone.

When it cooked-about three minutes on one side, I flipped it, slathered the sauce and some cheese on it and cooked it for another 5 minutes.


I took them out, let them cool and had them as a 'appetizer'. They were spectacular- Really good stuff......I am going to make another batch in a while!!!!

Try it!

They rocked!