i'm posting!!!
with pictures!now, this little experiment wasn't that exciting, but i thought it was colorful and pretty enough to perk up the blog, photo-wise. i was awfully proud of myself for making this meal. it was more labor-intensive than i thought it would be, but it made my mouth happy enough to make up for the extra time. the squashes make you work soooo hard to get at their goodies.
anyway, may i present: my dinner! (two nights ago. ;)
so, this is a new variation of the stuffed pepper that i tried and it was pretty good.
it involved:
br. rice
black beans
hominy (first experience with hominy, what a weird product, but it tasted pretty good)
chopped walnuts!
green chilis
onion
a little cumin
and a delightful little ingredient i just discovered: liquid smoke! it gave the dish just a little hint of smoked flavor, which was a really nice touch!
with a little jack cheese melted on top.
here's a close-up of the pepper's goodies. as you can see i had already devoured my side veggies by the time i got to the pepper. this was my first experience with butternut squash as well. i just baked it in the oven till it was tender, melted a tiny bit of butter on top and sprinkled with nutmeg. it was good. kinda like sweet potatoes, but not. and it made a nice sweet contrast to the smokey pepper. and the finishing touch was a little steamed broccoli.
my husband eddie's comment (being the carnivore he is): it's good, but i feel like a rabbit! ;0)
don't worry, we are getting pizza today for superbowl sunday, he will be sure to get his meat fix in on his half of the pizza.
yay! for thin crust veggie pizza from our local pizza joint!
oh, and i must say, the crockpot did a good job. i made a spicy veggie chili with garbanzo beans! (i normally use kidney and black beans.) it would certainly be a great investment for those times when you have to be gone all day. you come home to a really nice meal, instead of having to work up the energy to cook something. just in the door and time to eat! and it makes cooking dried beans a no-brainer. ya just soak em, and then toss em in with whatever else you want with it, and however many hours later....voila! bean food. except i'm still no expert on the perfect bean. i think i just need a little more practice before i can finally turn a dried bean into something wonderful. me and the canned beans have been pretty tight up until this point.lol. i'm learning. slowly, but surely.
i'll keep you updated on my progress with the beans and the crock o pot as we get to know each other better. ;)
posted by em @ 10:44 AM
4 Comments:
oh that looks so good!!!! I have a recipe for potato-stuffed green peppers that I've been wanting to try. Maybe when jason gets back from the good ole USofA. Somehow cooking for just me is significantly less fun than having someone else around (to help chop) and to talk to and share food with. Not to mention my penchant for eating all the food if there isn't someone else to eat some.
oh, yum. Tell me more about this hominy business? My mom and aunt were/are always trying to get me to try it, but I haven't yet. In fact, I had a can then gave it to a food bank. what is it? what's it like?
oh i forgot to ask...did the green chilis make your fingers burn?
well, no, my fingers didn't burn cuz i cheated and used the canned ones. :) and hominy is weird looking but tastes ok. basically it is corn. but specifically it is a white corn that has been soaked and stuff so they can remove the tough outer shell part of the corn kernel. so it is just a really soft corn center thingy. i was really frightened when i opened up the can cuz it looked kinda like that jellied cranberry sauce in the can (which i do like). but it was WHITE like other substances that are unappetizing, and had the consistency of things like lard and shortening. i know this doesn't sound appealing. it wasn't. and the recipe told me to drain it, and i was like, ummmmmm....it's sort of solid. anyway, after digging it out of the can with a spoon, i could see the pieces of corn all stuck together and i forced myself to put it in my mouth to taste and it tasted like sweet corn! so there. not so terrifying after all.
i had a moment though. ;) i know that it is pretty common to make hominy grits, but i have yet to experience that. overall, it was ok!
ter knows all about grits! hominy is good... it's used in a lot of tex mex dishes... we had a big rathbun fmily argument about it a few months back... anyways, i'll find some of my folks recipes and post them for y'all one day (it goes really well in soups).
speaking of soups... butternut squah makes a great soup and an even better one when you swirl it with black bean soup... oh how y'all make me hungry!
lovely pictures em! looks quite tasty!!!
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