Er… Um…

I may have to rethink that agenda from a couple posts ago.  Or close the door and focus.  Or both.  After I get to the supermarket and back.

At least the chili was good!  And I made an experimental banana bread.  Deb requests pumpkin bread today, since she’s avoiding bananas for Henry’s benefit.  I got large cans of pumpkin on clearance at Wal-Mart last week, and it’ll be interesting to compare how that comes out, now that all the fresh pumpkin is gone.  I can always try butternut bread again.  That’s 39 cents on sale this week, instead of a more normal 99.

I really need to start posting at the food blog again.  The experiment with the banana bread was to use 3/4 cup corn flour (not meal, not starch; actual flour) and 1 3/4 cup white flour, instead of 2 1/2 cups white.  Different, but good.  The kids are meh about it so I might freeze or share part of the loaf.

The chili was experimental, too.  Deb cook up all the black beans, a bit more than a pound because we somehow had two open bags.  Normally those get cooked up with garlic, pepper and other seasonings and served alongside or mixed with rice and maybe corn.  It’s one of the things Deb makes periodically.  It also contained a thawed top round roast that I’d gotten on sale, cut it into small pieces, a chopped medium onion, four chopped cloves of garlic, some chopped orange and green pepper from the freezer, half a bag of frozen corn near the end, and the requisite spices, brown and white sugars, ketchup, tomato paste, and dab of vinegar (in with the meat while it cooked, before going in with the beans).  The corn is something I have never put in chili, but it seemed right, was a nice color, and ensured it definitely wasn’t bitter.  Along with the allspice, which was strong yet appropriate in this variant.  It may have been a mistake to eat two bowls, and would definitely be a mistake to eat it a second day in a row, but it was up with the best chili I’ve made.  The kids enjoyed it.

Okay, I need a shower and then I can get on with the store run and rest of the day.

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