Delicio Recipe List

It's cold outside, and it actually snowed in the midlands of South Carolina this morning, for about 15 minutes! Wow! That was a close one! LOL Needless to say, there isn't a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk left in the stores, so I won't even try to venture out to the store! I found some beans, onions and tomatoes in the pantry, and I had some hamburger in the freezer! Good time for a giant pot of chili!  For the Beans: 1 lb dried Red Kidney Beans 4 cups water, or stock 1/2 tsp dried, minced onion 1 tsp minced garlic salt and pepper to taste Rinse and drain the beans several times. Add the water, onion, garlic, salt and pepper to a large pot and cook for a few hours or until beans are tender. To finish the Chili: 1-2 pounds ground lean beef 1 onion, chopped 2 cans diced tomatoes, drained 4 tablespoons of chili powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 teaspoons paprika 2 tablespoons ground cumin salt and pepper to taste Cook hamb...

We eat a lot of pinto beans around here, as I'm sure you can tell from my posts. They are inexpensive, versatile, delicious, and keep indefinatly in their dried state. But they take forever too cook. Used to. Not anymore. I can start a pot of beans from dry, unsoaked, and they will be done in just about an hour. Enter an old freind... the pressure cooker. I know we have all heard horror stories of lids blown off and food permanently embedded in the ceiling. Modern pressure cookers are safe! More safety gadgets on them than a nuclear power plant. Mine however, is about 20 years old. It has 2 safety gadgets. One locks the lid when there is any pressure at all, so you can't accidently remove the lid when you shouldn't. The other is a small rubber plug that will blow before anything else if there is a problem. The best safety with mine is keeping close by and keeping a keen ear tuned to it. Once it has pressre and the regulator begins to rock, the sound (spt, spt, spt) should c...