Abundance Of Beans, Recipe Abundance Of Beans

Posted the 24/10/2008 01:28:36 By Kath Eats Real Food (Visit website)

I apologize in advance for all the beans we’ll be eating in the coming days. I cooked some navy beans from scratch while I studied this afternoon and it made waaaaay more than we need. I’d say dried beans at least quadruple in volume when cooked!

After much studying, we went out for a walk and ended up drinking alcohol again! What’s with us and walking straight to the booze!? Today it was to Harris Teeter for the double wine tasting that’s usually happening on Thursday nights. We tried 9 different wines, which was probably between 3 and 4 oz.

Once home, the hub cracked open another Trader Joe’s beer. I had my usual gulps Probably about a third of it? This is his glass after we both drank some.

Once nicely buzzed, I had to restrict myself from overeating. The chomping jaws were hungry tonight for bread and all things carbohydrate!

On the menu were Happy Herbivore’s Boston Baked Beans (hence the beans from earlier). These were delicious! I’m not sure what made them “Boston” but they weren’t the typical Southern baked beans I am used to. They were very tomato-y and BBQ-y, but tasted great. We added some brown sugar instead of molasses and omitted the onions as usual, but otherwise we pretty much followed the recipe. Oh, but I doubled the recipe since we had so many beans. I considered it to make about 4 portions, each about 175 calorie’s worth.

On the side we had CSA green beans (wish we’d had more!) with some whipped butter -

And breeeeeaaaaaaaaaadddddddddd!!! A hunk from the loaf. Mmmmmmm! It was so sweet and brown, esp. with the butter melted inside

I went back for seconds -

The husband thawed out some banana bread for dessert and asked if I wanted a bite. I said yes and instead of taking a bite, I was presented with a slice on a silver platter. Er, red plate. It went down so fast I don’t even remember it! Musta been the drinks.

We’re done with another early dinner and it’s only 7:30! I should probably do some Organic homework, but I definitely see a bubble bath + reading in my evening too. I’ve really been loving the calming way of ending my day. I just hope the water bill isn’t too high

We’re putting the space heater in our room tonight to keep us warm. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow too I asked the husband if he would rather start his Friday off feeling fresh and fit or watch The Office, have a lazy breakfast and workout mid-day (well I would workout then and he’d be at work). He chose fresh and fit, so we’re planning a morning workout and will watch The Office as soon as he gets home tomorrow night.

Night!

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