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Sunday, December 16th, 2018 12:20 amI cooked kidney beans in the pressure cooker (which I haven't used in years). For that matter, the beans had been sitting in my cupboard for years too. After cooking them for 40 minutes, they weren't soft enough and in spite of the bouillon cubes and herbs I had added, didn't taste like much either. So I added salt - regular and black, and cooked it in the pressure cooker another hour and a half. Then they were good. But that was only the first step of the dish I intended to make.
I've also got some pumpkin I need to use up. It's already cooked and mashed. I decided to make this vegan pumpkin mac'n'cheese bake. So I boiled some pasta. Then I was hungry and ate some of the pasta, just plain with vegan butter and salt. It tasted so good, I ate some more. Now there might not be enough left for the recipe.
Maybe I'll boil another pot of noodles. Too late to cook more tonight. Guess I'll continue tomorrow.
While the beans were cooking, I started putting up the Christmas tree. This time, not only were half the green lights out, a bunch of the red lights were too. So I started taking the lights off the tree, testing each unlit bulb to see if it was burned out. I ended up replacing about 17 bulbs out of 300, but now the whole strand is working again. I still have to put them back on the tree.
I checked how much power the lights use. 180 Watts! I should replace them with LED bulbs. But really, the multi LED Christmas light strands I've seen in the stores don't look all that nice to me. Although the individual color LED lights I have bought.. red, purple, yellow... are rather nice. So I'll still keep these for now.
I've also got some pumpkin I need to use up. It's already cooked and mashed. I decided to make this vegan pumpkin mac'n'cheese bake. So I boiled some pasta. Then I was hungry and ate some of the pasta, just plain with vegan butter and salt. It tasted so good, I ate some more. Now there might not be enough left for the recipe.
Maybe I'll boil another pot of noodles. Too late to cook more tonight. Guess I'll continue tomorrow.
While the beans were cooking, I started putting up the Christmas tree. This time, not only were half the green lights out, a bunch of the red lights were too. So I started taking the lights off the tree, testing each unlit bulb to see if it was burned out. I ended up replacing about 17 bulbs out of 300, but now the whole strand is working again. I still have to put them back on the tree.
I checked how much power the lights use. 180 Watts! I should replace them with LED bulbs. But really, the multi LED Christmas light strands I've seen in the stores don't look all that nice to me. Although the individual color LED lights I have bought.. red, purple, yellow... are rather nice. So I'll still keep these for now.
