Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[BetteDavisEyes]

Brownies are amazing, can highly recommend, will absolutely make this mod again.

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[Auntie Cipation]

When you put beans in a soup and cook them in, they break down and thicken and create the texture of the soup. Adding at the end would still probably be nice, but it'd be a broth with beans floating in it, which wouldn't be the same. Don't mind me, I'm just missing something that isn't practical to make anymore. If my freezers weren't crammed to bursting, I'd freeze single serves and do it that way, but reducing what's in there is a monumental task that never gets done.

MOO

I live alone/cook for one, and make bean dishes on a regular basis. Don't deprive yourself! Just make what you like and maybe freeze the extra servings so you can have them other times?

 

[iamshadow21]

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I only got one wrong!

 

[slowpoke]

I live alone/cook for one, and make bean dishes on a regular basis. Don't deprive yourself! Just make what you like and maybe freeze the extra servings so you can have them other times?

Good idea, except her freezer is too full, she said.

I wonder if adding canned refried beans would satisfy. Many years ago, on another forum I used to frequent, a poster shared an easy 5-can soup recipe that includes refried beans. It’s been a very long time since I made it, but I recall it thickened the soup and made it kind of creamy. My recollection is she said it was originally a Weight Watchers recipe.

Found it. The top is her words, not mine (as I DO eat meat. ) The way she wrote it, it looks like the cheese goes into the soup, but I believe it’s just for topping after. At least, that’s what I thought.

 

[IceIce9]

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I missed the question about the best way to tell if brownies are done. The answer the quiz says is correct is inserting a toothpick, but the brownie recipes k use say specifically “Do not over bake. Toothpick tests are not reliable with brownies.”

I know that if a toothpick inserted into brownies comes out with no crumbs the brownies are overbaked. And overbaking are the main reason that brownies are dry.

 

[iamshadow21]

I missed the question about the best way to tell if brownies are done. The answer the quiz says is correct is inserting a toothpick, but the brownie recipes k use say specifically “Do not over bake. Toothpick tests are not reliable with brownies.”

I know that if a toothpick inserted into brownies comes out with no crumbs the brownies are overbaked. And overbaking are the main reason that brownies are dry.

The one I got wrong was the one about eggs.

The brownies I make are fudgy in the middle, but the recipe has three eggs, so I guessed fudgy, but the right answer was apparently cakey.

 

[IceIce9]

The one I got wrong was the one about eggs.

The brownies I make are fudgy in the middle, but the recipe has three eggs, so I guessed fudgy, but the right answer was apparently cakey.

I have a couple of recipes that say to make cake-like brownies add an extra egg. I like fudgy brownies so I don’t add the egg.

 

[IceIce9]

Good idea, except her freezer is too full, she said.

I wonder if adding canned refried beans would satisfy. Many years ago, on another forum I used to frequent, a poster shared an easy 5-can soup recipe that includes refried beans. It’s been a very long time since I made it, but I recall it thickened the soup and made it kind of creamy. My recollection is she said it was originally a Weight Watchers recipe.

Found it. The top is her words, not mine (as I DO eat meat. ) The way she wrote it, it looks like the cheese goes into the soup, but I believe it’s just for topping after. At least, that’s what I thought.

I love bean soup and might give this one a try.