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"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:57:20 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:17:40 +0100, "Ophelia"
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Last time I cooked my beans in a slow cooker with a lump of smoked
>> >> gammon
>> >> and they were well received! I have some beans in soak now and
>> >> tomorrow
>> >> intend to cooked them with some chicken joints and good chicken stock.
>> >> (I
>> >> will add onions etc too)
>> >>
>> >> Any comments would be welcome?
>> >
>> > You're adding garlic, herbs, maybe some tomato?
>>
>> Garlic, onions, herbs. I hadn't though of tomato. The last lot were
>> even
>> better when I made a pot of tomato sauce and mixed it in at table. Do
>> you
>> think I should add a can of tomatoes at the start?
>
> I don't know the volume you're making, but I'd add anywhere from a
> whole plum tomato whizzed in the mini-chopper to a can of diced or
> crushed... it all depends on how much you want the tomato to assert
> itself.
>>
>> You could turn it
>> > into a one pot meal if you add something green at the end... spinach,
>> > chard, kale. How long it cooks depends on which green you choose.
>>
>> Hmm I will give that some thought thanks.
>
> YW - I'll be awaiting the verdict.

hmm it is done. Not so good as the last one. I can recover it I know but
.....

It might have been cooked too long. Not sure about these beans either.
Not so good as the black eyed peas.

All experimentation though which is what I love)) In your experience, do
the
black eyed peas take longer than plain white beans?


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