We took our coffee table out into the garden to have a proper picnic :)
Enjoying our corn on the cob :)
I think I've finally figured out how much chili and cayenne pepper to put in my chili. It's a delicate balance of spice and still being able to enjoy eating! Since I'm a vegetarian, I like to make a Three Bean Chili. But the cupboards are getting a bit bare and apparently I haven't gotten tinned beans for while. I usually use kidney, black, and pinto beans for chili. But alas, there were no pinto beans.
Today, I used an ingredient I have never heard of before. The tin is from a Caribbean shop and they are called Jamaican gungo peas. The label from the tin had a recipe for rice and beans using the gungo peas, so I figured they would taste ok in the chili. So, today's chili included kidney beans, black beans, and gungo peas. I did a little wikipedia-ing and apparently they are also called pigeon peas.
It tasted quite good! To make it complete, we toasted "To America" with our KoolAid. I'm sure our neighbors were wondering what we were on about, but we enjoyed ourselves.
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