Tuesday 13 November 2012

Beans and stuff.


So, I completely fucked up my finances this month. Mostly because I booked a trip to Madrid for Xmas. So yeah, it is entirely my fault but for some reason I didn't figure I would be quite this broke. Pay day is still 11 days away.

If it weren't for the fact that I haven't posted in AGES I wouldn't even entertain the idea of making this public. It's suspiciously similar to the chilli post, hence pretty much soul-destroying. The major difference is that I was expecting this to be rubbish but it is GODDAMNED tasty.

I actually made a couple of decent meals over the weekend. I forgot to take a photo of one (Sweet & sour mock duck) and seem to have lost the photo of the other (baked tofu w/ sweet potato wedges, asparagus & salsa) so yeah, tits to that.

I was looking through my cupboard last night after getting home from a loooooong Monday, and there wasn't much in there that I thought I could turn in to anything exciting. So I resigned my self to brown rice with *something*. A tin of black beans got chosen for no real reason, I picked out some tomato puree and figured we were heading in the chilli direction again. I went to the fridge to get an onion and Lo! for there was still some salsa that needed using.

So yeah, I sautéed the onion, threw in a chopped green pepper, a chopped chilli & some tomato purée. I added a little bit of water & simmered, then threw in the salsa. It looked like this:

So I guess you wanna know what was in the salsa? You won't be surprised to learn I wasn't really paying attention when I made it, but it was something along these lines:

1x onion
1x green pepper
1x red chilli
2x medium tomatoes
Some fresh coriander
Bit of salt
Fresh black pepper
Slug of rice wine vinegar (I didn't have any lime or anything)

Yup. Just chop shit up and yr done! I stuck mine in a jug and gave it a couple of seconds with the hand blender. I probably put a little bit of water in too. This salsa was pretty tasty, but not very hot. Obviously you need to beware of how hot yr chillies are, and remember, you can put more in, but you can't take it out.

So this is what it all looked like at work today:

It looks really rubbish, but I PROMISE you it is was so super-tasty!

I realise this post is devoid of usual incisive humour and elegant profanity. I am not some sort of perfoming monkey, shitbag, deal with it.

(Seriously though, I'll try to be more usual, pricktard self for the next post, k?)