Sodden
Friday, 2 January 2015
We’re enjoying (haha) the winter rainy season, all grey and over-moist.
Better than ice, we decided!
Musings
Traditionally welcomed
Friday, 2 January 2015
We enjoyed the greens and beans and rice crucial to the traditional New Year’s Day dish, in a bid for luck and prosperity. In a year, we’ll know if it worked.
We slightly modified it.
The rice was Basmati.
The beans were lady cream peas that I cooked from dry. These are small cowpeas, off white when dry. They take about 1.5 hrs to cook, no soaking. I cooked them for an hour, then separately prepared tasty bits, sautéed separately, and added them for the final half-hour of simmering. Tasty bits included onions and poblano. At the very end, I added some sautéed turkey Andouille sausage.
I quick sauteed some spinach and sliced some green onions and mint (left over…).
I served it in layers, a mound of rice, scoops of beans and potlikker, topped by a twist of spinach, with a dusting of green onion tops and mint.