Taking a short break from KP duty. Been cooking up a [petite] storm lately. A couple of days ago, I made a vegetarian bean chili (Deborah Madison recipe from The Greens cookbook--roasted some butternut squash to add to it at the end and cooked some white rice to go with it too). Today, I'm caramelizing some onions (some of which were starting to green up) in the smaller of my slow cookers [Learned that adding some butter to the bottom of it and occasionally stirring them and cooking them on low for a number of hours works surprisingly well!]; also got some chickpeas soaking and either later tonight or early tomorrow will cook a yummy Ottolenghi recipe which I'm going to adapt slightly and try doing it in a slow cooker--instead of constantly stirring it for four hours on my stovetop. If you're interested, look up his slow-cooked chickpeas on toast with poached eggs; it's to die for! Or if you're interested, I'll post the recipe and how I'm going to try it slightly differently this time [so as not to kill the cook]. The leftovers keep really well too.
And I also have some chicken stock going now on my stovetop (using the remains of a leftover roast chicken).
By the way, the Ottolenghi recipe is vegetarian--you could also make it vegan by skipping the poached eggs.
What have the rest of the cooks here been up to lately?
PD
