I have THE BEST pot of black bean chili on the stove right now.\u00a0 It needs another 20 minutes or so of cooking but I just had to share the excitement immediately.<\/p>\n

I threw ingredients in more or less at random but somehow it has coalesced into my perfect chili.\u00a0 I think the secret is pot liquor<\/em>.\u00a0 I love that phrase (being a fan of liquor of many kinds). It’s the liquid that remains in the pot after cooking the beans.\u00a0 In this case, I cooked up a big load of black beans this afternoon, and their liquor was smooth, matte,\u00a0 the colour of melted dark chocolate, and, critically, very tasty.<\/p>\n

When it came time to make the chili, I fried a couple of roughly chopped onions until they were golden and soft, added some chopped garlic, a teaspoon or so each of chili powder, cumin powder, cumin seeds and smoked paprika and cooked another couple of minutes until aromatic, then added a tin of tomatoes, about 5 or 6 cups of the cooked drained black beans, a couple of cups of the reserved pot liquor, and two fresh bay leaves.\u00a0 I am currently in the late stages of simmering it for an hour, adding spoonfuls of pot liquor as necessary to keep it at the right consistency.\u00a0 Shortly I will eat it in soft tacos with vegies roasted with chili and cumin, and guacamole.\u00a0 I am sure I will make disgusting moans of enjoyment while doing so.\u00a0 Can’t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have THE BEST pot of black bean chili on the stove right now.\u00a0 It needs another 20 minutes or so of cooking but I just had to share the excitement immediately. I threw ingredients in more or less at random but somehow it has coalesced into my perfect chili.\u00a0 I think the secret is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,3,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woolfit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}