Crockpot & Baking

[bertine]

This morning I put everything in my crockpot that is needed for Split Pea soup. I am hoping it turns out. My plan is to freeze half of the soup for later. Then over the weekend I am planning on making a batch of 16 bean soup and doing the same thing. It will be very nice to have a few meals in the freezer and I like beans and don't know why I don't eat them more often.

I wish making bread didn't take so much time so I could get a batch out of the oven before we eat dinner but I think I am just going to buy some bread after I go to the gym. Then I can make banana bread instead and save the fresh bread for this weekend.

Comments

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

16 bean! That's crazy!!! Wait, do you mean 16 kinds of beans or 16 individual beans?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

16 kinds otherwise it would be really watery. :P

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

16 beans! But the CONTAINMENT MATRIX alone would be overwhelming!!!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I have special equipment:

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

But the inter-bean-interaction!!!

I dunno, I've never done more than 5 kinds of beans. Well, 6 if you cound the tofu. Except I put soybeans in it anyway (;

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I actually just realized I bought the 17 BEAN mix.


Includes baby and large lima, black turtle, blackeye peas, dark and light red kidney, garbanzo, great northern, green lentils, green split, navy beans, pink beans, pinto beans, red lentils, red beans, white beans, yellow split pea, barley

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're counting peas as beans!!!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

but not barley.

Anyways, I am not the one that counted them, take it up with trader joe's!

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh pfft. In that case I'm just going to assume that three of them are actually brightly coloured plastic.

[ua-dubhne.livejournal.com]

I made split pea soup in my slow cooker a couple weeks ago!

2 lbs dried peas
1 1/2 lbs diced ham
1/2 tsp thyme
Tbsp minced fresh garlic
Bay leaf
Dash cayenne

all together, with 1 gallon water. Low cook overnight + 1 work shift (~15 hours) S+P to taste, served with toast points.

Incredibly easy, very winter-warming, and yummy! Keeps well, too.