Recipe Thread

[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!

[RICHARD]

Help!


I want to BBQ/pit cook a pork roast.

Does anyone have any hints/tips/ideas?