Month: June 2015

Wow… the past few months have simply flown by! Yesterday, the BF asked if I could meet him for a few hours and so shortly after work I was headed to his place.

I made sure I brought along the remaining Black eyed peas stir fry with veggies. You can read about my Black Eyed peas stir fry, with veggies, here.  He said, ” I really love this! I could eat an entire plate of this food.” This dish was vegan all the way. I must say I’m thrilled that he’s very open to trying vegan cuisine.

Since we’ll see him this weekend, I’m already thinking of a few dishes I could prepare. Top on the list is some type of homemade bean burger… vegan of course. I’m also thinking of making egg rolls or wontons? Perhaps we can add freshly made pasta too? We’ll see!

Also, I think I’ll bake a peach pie. Opal, baking? Shocking… right? I can bake, and I’ve been told that I do make some “great” dishes; however, since I’m not much of a sweet eater there’s really not much point. My daughter loves sweets, but eats mainly homemade cookies, which I really don’t consider baking.

Why am I baking? The BF told me his father loves peach pie and so I’ll be playing around with a few recipes and having my daughter and him sample them. Next weekend, we’ll be visiting his parents. They live in Delaware.  So you could say my daughter and the BF will be the willing guinea pigs. We’ll see what they say. .

Upcoming announcement – What could it possibly be?

So much going on, and so little time to write!  I most likely will have an announcement to make in a few months… 😉

Yesterday, I was craving a dish with black eyed peas. I mentioned it to the BF when I was talking to him and he told me how much he loved them, although none of his other coworkers did. I believe I said, “they don’t know what they’re missing!”

With that conversation fresh on my mind,  last evening, I pulled out my 8 qt. Presto cooker, added my dry black eyed peas with water. I stepped away for about twenty minutes and let the pressurized cooker work it’s magic.

I came back to fully cooked black eyed peas that gave off a slightly nutty aroma. Mmm… I made enough to use in several meal preparations. The cooked beans that I did not use immediately, were put into smaller glass storage containers and frozen.

And while I like the dish I created below, I sure would have loved if I could have added a bit more color. However,  a quick check in my refrigerator, showed me that I was missing a lot of produce.

I have not been to the store (I’ll be going there today) and I did not feel like going to our garden to pick some greens to add to this dish; however, I will take care of that today. There is plenty of this left over and so tossing in a few extra ingredients won’t be an issue.

Today, I’ll be making black eyed pea burgers, with some of  the plain peas.