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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Southwestern Lentil Beef Soup

Lentil Sausage Soup

   Materials 

  • 1 pound beef hind shank
  • 1  onion cubed
  • 3 clove garlic minced or more if you like.
  • 1 small bag carrots – chopped 
  • 3 cups lentils
  • 3 tbsp. salt – mix in water to taste > salt is a subtle thing!  – Prefer Morton lite salt with 1/2 NaCl  & 1/2 KaCl ( potassium salt ) 
  • juice from 1 whole lemon
  • 2 cups tomato puree
  • 1/2 celery bundle
  • olive oil
  • New Mexico Chile Powder
  • Cumin – you can put in after done pressure cooking – about 2 teaspoons – add in slowly and mix – to taste
  • 5 bay leaves
  • water
  • 2 double thickness tablespoons of brown sugar – Its not much considering its a 5 quart pot but it really livens the flavor  – Optional

   Steps

  1. Soak 3 cups lentils over night
  2. Put everything in a pressure cooker EXCEPT { beef ,  salt , water ) 
  3. Add water to the minimum height to match the solids
  4. Add salt to taste
  5. add the beef 
  6. Put in a 5 ish quart pressure cooker and cook for 15 minutes after up to full reactor vessel pressure
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Jalopena Salad

  • bed of lettuce lightly salted > I used light salt with Potassium
  • thinly sliced onion
  • optional: rice
  • sweet basil > purple underleaf variety from Lee Lee's asian market
  • chick peas
  • jalopena peppers thinly sliced
  • olive oil
  • lemon juice – much tastier than plain old vinegar
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Standard Hummus with Chickpeas

I have also made variants with black beans and jalopenas.  It was stinkin' hot and and I loved it.

Hummus


Notes on execution

  1. Make sure you do not exceed your blenders limits.  As the mixture is pureed the paste will get thicker.  If you have too much volume the blender will bog down and / or cavitate.    Your only choice then is to lower viscosity by adding water or olive oil
  2. leave room in your blender to be able to tweak the recipe to suit your tastes
  3. 11.2.2014 – The quality of the beans used makes a difference!  In spite of being pureed you can still sense a textural difference.  I also sensed a taste difference.  Currently in Brazil.  I tried using Kanty which is a cheaper brand of chickpeas.  I can very distinctly sense the difference in quality between the hummus made from them and they hummus made from the better Yoki brand.

Ingredients

  • 3 cup cooked chickpeas
  • 1/2 cup tahina
  • juice of 2 lemons.   ( 1/2 cup lemon juice …needs to be measured and updated here )  – fresh will taste much better.  Bottled only if necessary..   Vinegar in a pinch. The flavor of beans is complemented well by acids.
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

Addition notes

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Jacks Miracle beans mayo salad

Fagoli Pavoni Mayonnaise and bean salad recipe

Fagoli Pavoni

Ingredients

  • Fagoli Pavoni beans – do not know the english name yet
  • Fresh basil – prefer the purplish variety with hint of liquorish flavor 
  • garlic – chip chopped
  • Mayonaise – the good stuff.  Please no cheapies as its critical for taste
     

Steps

  1. Cook up some Fagioli Pavoni   or some suitable substitute.  I put in the refridgerator to chill.  
  2. finely chop the basil and garlic and mix with the beans in a bowl.   
  3. Add the mayonaise and mix gently as to not break the beans.
  4. let sit 1 hour allow the garlic flavor to diffuse through out the mayonaise.

Very good!  Invented this one myself!

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Bean Recipes Table of Contents TOC

My collection of bean based recipes

Recipes

Bean Sources

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

USB to rs-232 – Clearing Phantom Serial Ports

 

 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago