A domestic miscellany

Home oeconomics: the science of managing a household. This is my domestic journal, an intermittent record of recipes, home improvements, and textile crafts.
Posts tagged "beans"
Things I've learnt since moving to California

Things I’ve learnt since moving to California

Before I moved to California, I would never have eaten a breakfast like this: Yellow corn tortillas, eggs, and some chilli made of Rancho Gordo pebble beans with a sprinkle of cheese on top. They don’t currently have that variety of beans on their website; I’ll have to keep an eye out for more when...

Recovering from my childhood baked beans trauma

At some point in my life I started to hate baked beans. I ate them as a small kid, but somewhere along the line I started to dislike mushy, bland food, and tinned baked beans had that horrible mushy tastelessness that made me want to barf. It’s not that I had any objection to beans...

Menu planning

I need to do some menu planning for the coming week, and thought I might do it here and share it. The shape of my week Friday (today) – home for an early dinner, going out after. Saturday – out at a class during the day, so I miss the market and also need to...