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Ever Have One Of Those Days?
It started well enough. I'd remembered to soak some beans overnight for the evening meal - that is a rarity in itself. Chorizo and white bean stew for dinner - strips of red and yellow peppers, a few mushrooms, garlic, tomato, sherry, thyme and smoked paprika - something to look forward to all day.
Work is tough at the moment, with a bunch of projects with unrealistic timescales, so evenings not sat in front of the PC are treasured. But then there was a bomb scare at the local ASDA, blocking the road to the station and my journey home.
"Who would want to blow-up ASDA?" asked a colleague. Well, me for a start. Maybe they could replace it with a Waitrose? Indeed the question is, who wouldn't want to blow-up ASDA? (It should be noted that the less than super supermarket is still standing this morning.)
So I was an hour late by the time I got home. And cursing those beans - tinned would have been fine, but now I had to wait for them to boil for forty minutes or they'd be as tough as nails. And, sure as sure is sure, forty minutes passed - we're both ravenous - and they boiled dry and burnt to buggery. They're still there in the knackered saucepan this morning.
So after all that, we had a tin of butter beans in the stew anyway...
But was the stew good anyway, even with the tinned beans? It sounds like a
really nice idea. Anything involving chorizo sounds like a nice idea to me
though :)
Yeah it was quite nice. To be honest, I usually use tinned beans and
chickpeas anyway, as I rarely remember to soak them overnight - and this
isn't my first burning-beans experience!
I was up at Borough Market recently and stocked-up at Brindisa with various
things (remortgaging the house in the process) including chorizo. I prefer
the type used for cooking rather than slicing - you can buy them in packs
of about 8 or 10 and they freeze well. I divide them up into individual
sausages and whack them in the freezer.
I also bought some astonishingly expensive (but astonishingly good) jamon
iberico - the wife and I just sat and noshed it down... with a glass of
chilled fino, of course...
I really must do the same next time I'm at Borough because it's almost
impossible to buy good cooking chorizo anywhere else. Thanks for the
freezer tip too, I will of course have to eat some of the stuff I have
squirreled away in there before I can add anything else!
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