Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
Made refried pinto beans with just salt, bacon grease, and a pastry blender. Realized that consistency really does matter — it makes it more smooth. Next time get an immersion blender. Also learned that there is more to really good beans than just fat and salt. Next time, I ought to try this recipe: http://www.adn.com/2014/05/03/3454503/alaska-from-scratch-for-cinco.html […]
20140206 Made refried beans following the great reciple from simplyrecipes.com: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/refried_beans/ Very simple — soaked the beans for 4 hours, didn’t discard liquid, cooked in crock pot for many hours – 2-3 hrs? It was too late for me to finish it off, so I just put it in the fridge overnight, without draining the […]
Chorizo and potato burritos Learned more about making tortillas: Tortillas, doubled the foodwishes tortillas recipe: 16 ounces all-purpose flour (about 3.5 cup), more as needed 1.5 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 1 cup hot water (about 105 degrees F.) roll out into long snake, and divide equally into eight parts […]
Successfully made tortillas using the foodwishes.com recipe: http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2011/03/fresh-homemade-flour-tortillas-in-no.html Ingredients: 8 ounces all-purpose flour (about 1 3/4 cup), more as needed 3/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 cup vegetable shortening 1/2 cup hot water (about 105 degrees F.) Very fast and easy, but still requires lard. Use medium heat on electric stove, and err […]
Made mexican rice today. It was probably my third real attempt, and it is based off this recipe on allrecipes.com: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mexican-Rice-II/Detail.aspx Ingredients * 3 tablespoons vegetable oil * 1 cup uncooked long-grain rice * 1 teaspoon garlic salt * 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin * 1/4 cup chopped onion * 1/2 cup tomato sauce * 2 […]