I don’t
think words are necessary to explain why I thought this would be yummy. However,
I did not have the ingredients I needed.
Instead of azuki beans, I used normal Brazilian beans (‘carioca’) and used my
pressure cooker because we know how to cook beans down here.
My recipe did not come out as expected. It softened the beans too much and it
came out as a soup (sorry, I don’t have a picture of it). Needless to say, I was
quite upset about getting it wrong. I always do this- my recipes never come out as they should. Bummed.
And
then, my hubby tried it (I was quite unwilling, it didn’t look nearly as
appetizing!) and was blown away. He said it was the best bean soup he ever had-
HA!
So I have
learned three recipes so far, but I finally learned that there are times we
need to let it go, and adapt to what we can have for dinner. As long as its
yummy, who cares whether it looks like the book?
