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Pirate’s soup
In the effort to have my young kids (3 and 6) eat healthy I invented the story of the Pirate’s soup. As the story goes, pirates hide in some areas nearby and when they sleep I sometimes approach their lair and take some golden nuggets or doubloons they have in their treasure chest to bring…
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Mesir Wat (Ethiopian Spiced Red Lentils)
Ingredients: 60ml olive oil, 600g onion chopped, 60g garlic chopped, 75g ginger chopped, 30g berbere (can be replaced by garam masala or ras el hanout with red chili), 2tbsp turmeric, 2tsp comin, 1000g crushed tomatoes canned, 600 g split red lentils (or other beans), 2,5 l vegetable stock, salt and pepper. Instructions: Heat olive oil…
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Black Turtle Bean Recipe (or Black Turtle Stew)
Black turtle bean is an indigenous/heirloom variety, native to the Balkan countries. In our garden in Serbia it yields abundantly — the beans are fine, rather small, satin-shiny and firm. From our seed bank this variety has spread to more than 40 addresses in other households around the country, as well as abroad. Ingredients for…
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Faves Ofegades
To Crossfield This bean soup from Catalunya, adapted by Vázquez Montalbán (and me), is one of my favorite bean dishes. Ingredients: Thick white beans, large piece of black pudding, bacon, olive oil, an onion, garlic cloves, tomatoes, old dry red wine, dry aniseed schnapps, 1 bunch of herbs made from thyme, bay leaf, rosemary, mint…
