… Grilled Peppers, Salsa, Rice & Beans
Tonight I’m cooking for my friends Pieter and Gavin. This one seemed quite an easy meal to cook and I barley had to do any shopping for it. I get to use my new liquidizer again today, which means I’m just about beginning to feel justified in buying it.
This is quite a simple meal to cook. There is far too much sauce and it’s very hot, so only a tiny bit is eaten.
The rice is really very nice. I think I’m quite sold on the whole ready made rice from a pack thing (or at least in certain circumstances). It works well with spiced, flavoured rice dishes.
I really have gotten into the whole half assed re-fired bean thing. I really like proper re-fired beans and can and do cook them properly. However this idea of chucking tinned kidney (or similar) beans in a frying pan and cooking them until they pop and split open is a great quick way of getting that effect. Maybe … maybe … its better. You get that pulsey-fluffy texture but also that gnarly, almost over cooked, texture on the outside. It is great.
Again I was beaten by the chicken. You put it on quite late in the process (one third of the way through the words in the book). The chicken wasn’t cooked in time. I also straggled with individually warming the torillas in the griddle pan.
Nevertheless, it was a nice meal. Followed by a beer or two. Not a bad evening at all.
Who with: Gavin and Pieter
How Long: Seventeen Minutes and twenty eight seconds
