Experiments in the Kitchen

Tonight I am using my powers of experimentation in the kitchen!

I got some tofu, some spaghetti sauce, some raw/bulk legumes, (I am not entirely sure what they all are. I am pretty sure one bean is a dark red kidney bean. The others…maybe a black bean and a pinto??) And then I went through our veggie draw to cut up and toss in all veggies/produce that are wilted and ready to die. (ie carrot, broccoli, bean sprouts, cucumbers, green beans, potato.)

I started the cooking of some of the veggies with an onion and a dibble of vegetable oil in a wok. (It started to smell very nice.) I threw in the tofu.

I added some garlic. (Yummy.)

I started the liquid boiling.

I threw in all the stuff.

I added some salt.

I added some Italian seasoning (From the import store; could be the States.)

It’s still boiling.

Through this experiment I have discovered that raw beans need to be given longer to soak… I think??

I had overheard someone saying that raw beans need to be soaked. I soaked mine for a few hours. They were all still rather hard. I checked a few minutes ago on the beans…they seem to be softening. Don’t worry. I don’t mind a bit of crunch in my soup.

OH! I have to get out my frozen spinach to throw in…

(…Well, the beans are still rather hard…and...dry… They are almost prune-ish, but hard in their pruned state. Ahh well.)

Tonight, I have also croc-potted (slow cooked) a dying sweet potato with cinnamon. Delicious, no? (Dui, bu dui?) <-Chinese being used*

I figured, it works with pumpkin, I really enjoy croc-potted apples and cinnamon, some people put cinnamon on their sweet potatoes (yams) at Thanksgiving, why not slow cook it together?!! (Cinnamon and sweet potatoes, that is. Though I DID think about throwing some apples in there too; just to see what would happen. Maybe next time.)

It turned out pretty tasty.

I may not make it sit in there so long next time.

…Maybe I should post pictures of my concoction. (It will be my lunch and perhaps some breakfasts and dinners all this week…No matter what it tastes like. I will not waste!!!!)

Other recipes still welcomed…

(Especially recipes with these bulk beans and tofu -- so CHEAP! The tofu was 1.5RMB! Oooh! Altogether, the various beans were about 8RMB. That's around $1.25, my friends.)