I bought a pound of dried pinto beans for like $1.50 last week, this is what I did this weekend:
Thursday night:
- before bedtime, soaked all the beans for overnight
Friday:
- after work I drained/rinsed beans, pressure cooked em for 20 minutes while watching TV, completely done. Stored them in the fridge for later
Saturday:
- dumped 8 cups water and some frozen vegetable/produce scraps from a gallon freezer bag full (took 1/3rd of these scraps), pressure cooked for 5 mins, strained into nut milk bag, bam.. I know have 9 cups of veggie stock from stuff that normally was thrown away or composted!
- used some of the newly made veggie stock as liquid for to pressure cook 2 cups dry brown rice, this yielded like 4-5 cups cooked
- satued one onion chopped, 2 jalapenos seeded, 4 cloves garlic w/ some veggie stock, then dumped the previously cooked beans with liquid and refried them
- cleaned the cooker then cooked up some leftover broccoli crowns and the rest of a cauliflower head
- opened up the 12ct whole wheat tortillas.. made burritos with rice, beans, veggies, rolled them into foil and stacked them into the freezer
- soaked garbanzo beans overnight
Sunday:
Enjoyed a burrito for lunch while I used up some more veggie stock and made a garbanzo bean soup with leftover cabbage, used the rest of the kohlrabbi and other stuff from our CSA, along with celery, carrots, etc. 15 minutes later we now have enough soup to last us a week.
For dessert I pressure cooked some peaches and apples, dumped some cinnamon on those bad boys. She eats yogurt, I don't, but I imagine it tasted good with the yogurt. My gf was skeptical at first but now she doesn't feel like its a loss because she didn't buy a pint of overpriced and bad for you ice cream.
