Beans & Rice & Rye

OK! So I love refried beans. Point of interest if you didn't already know, but the re prefix in Spanish adds emphasis instead of denoting repetition, so refrito is more accurately translated as 'fried all to hell' rather than 're-fried'.
Anyways! How do I like these things?
Well, mince up some garlic and a chipotle pepper (visited every grocery store in town looking for them), and fry them up with a little bit of thinly sliced then chopped up chorizo (spread a little meat out for extra texture and flavour). When the oil's all nice and red from taking in the sauce of the chipotles (unless, like, you got fresh chipotles somehow?), throw in them refried black beans from a can. Fry it up, then for the last minute, throw in chopped parsley, crumbled feta, and grated white cheddar (close enough for queso blanco). Mix it, heat it, plate it. Along with some rice and flatbreads rye bread and sour cream and tomatoes & parsley for garnish. Rye is, of course, not the typical pairing, but it's what I've got.



I was trying to plate it up nice and got the parsley in there, then mom and her friend BJ (she makes beads and jewelry, sells them here, she is from the Yukon or one of the territories, I think?) were hanging around and drinking wine and demanding cooking demonstrations (I think you would fit right in there, drinking wine with ladies and making me cook things), and BJ being an artist and mom being a quilter, they said I needed some red so there was some more adobo on top of the rice and I slipped the tomatoes in underneath after the fact by guiding them in with a knife. The beans actually looked a lot nicer in the pan spread out but on the plate you're missing all the nice little bits of stuff in there.

action shot!

All mexican food shots © my mom.

Bonus "Consuming All My Rye Bread" pictures:

meats&cheeses                                                        mushroom&onion grilled cheese

Pasta, mostly blanco

So, we need to have a good discussion about relationship debrief, friendship futures, and all applicable boundaries, intentions, and emotions, but I am not going to wait for that conversation to get back to the blog because frankly this is my favorite game.

Tonight was simple spaghetti. Boiled some noodles, heated some oil and fried some minced garlic in it lightly, drained the noodles, tossed some chopped parsley in the pan with the oil and garlic, then threw the noodles plus crumbled feta and grated parmesean et al. in there. Also lots of fresh cracked pepper on top.
Pretty delicious. Pasta was perfectly al dente. Would probably serve with maybe half a grilled chicken breast on the side, and maybe some nice soup (carrot or tomato?). As it was just me for late supper, I ate it alone and was happy with that.



Probably will not see you tonight as I hope to be in bed before 9:00. Not sure when this week might be good to talk, but I'll talk to you later.