{"id":512,"date":"2012-11-25T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-11-25T17:17:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:17:01","slug":"smitten-kitchen-cookbook-adventures-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/smitten-kitchen-cookbook-adventures-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Smitten Kitchen cookbook adventures (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#5: Slow cooker black bean ragout<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently a ragout is a main-dish stew (related to the Italian <em>ragu<\/em>), usually cooked long and slow. Now you know!<\/p>\n<p>This is a basic bean dish, probably not that different from one you&#8217;d find in any veggie or vegan cookbook, and that&#8217;s exactly what I wanted for post-Thanksgiving. It does come with some interesting suggested extras like lime-pickled red onions (I used the onions I pickled with the celery for the potato salad) and cumin crema (I used some of the Greek yogurt I had from the galette), and it was nice to be inspired to take the toppings up a notch. The result was tasty in an understated way and super easy &#8212; you just chop the onions and mince or crush the garlic, then put everything (onions, garlic, beans, spices) into the crock pot to cook. No presoaking required!<\/p>\n<p>My crockpot cooked the beans in about five hours on high, and I turned it down to low while I made some rice once they were done, because I didn&#8217;t want to make the garlic toasts she suggests (the recipe also says you can put the beans in anything you want &#8212; including tacos, which after my breakfast taco experiences in Austin, sounds awesome). I served it over rice with scallions, cilantro, avocado (thanks to Whole Foods 5\/$5 &#8216;Black Friday&#8217; special), and the onions and crema.<\/p>\n<p>One bowl of it was totally satisfying and tasty. I&#8217;m going to have it for dinner again tonight, and I&#8217;ll probably make it again in the near future, starting it in the morning and running it on low while I&#8217;m at work. I don&#8217;t often make full meals in my crockpot but I&#8217;d like to do more. And I&#8217;ve made black beans in the crockpot before, even from a cookbook recipe (<em>Vegan Lunchbox<\/em>, if I remember correctly) but I preferred this one to any other that I&#8217;ve made. So it definitely needs to go into the regular rotation, unlike most of the recipes I&#8217;ve tried so far which have been great but mostly on the complicated side (except the kale salad which I also want to make again).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#5: Slow cooker black bean ragout Apparently a ragout is a main-dish stew (related to the Italian ragu), usually cooked long and slow. Now you know! This is a basic bean dish, probably not that different from one you&#8217;d find in any veggie or vegan cookbook, and that&#8217;s exactly what I wanted for post-Thanksgiving. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11,46],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}