{"id":126,"date":"2007-07-05T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-10-29T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T23:21:07","slug":"47-cuban-black-beans-p267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"47. Cuban Black-Beans p.267"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/48-cuban-black-beans-p-267-redux-small.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No recipe for this one.<\/p>\n<p>These beans were fine, completely middle of the road fine. They&#8217;re pretty standard soaked black beans with a bit of bacon, green pepper, cider vinegar, and a bay leaf added. The effect of these added flavours was very subtle, so subtle you might not notice them at all. I tried them again a couple of days later, and the flavours were a bit more pronounced, but they could still slip under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>That said, beans aren&#8217;t really meant to be the star of the show most of the time, and these were a perfectly good accompaniment to the pork tenderloin I served them with. They had a fairly good texture, with a bit of resistance left to them. Some of the beans broke down and thickened the cooking liquid. They might have been better if they ended up with a little more liquid, but I didn&#8217;t want to add water right at the end.<\/p>\n<p>I know nothing about Cuban food, but I certainly wouldn&#8217;t have guessed Cuban if you&#8217;d asked me to guess the origin of the recipe. There aren&#8217;t a heck of a lot of Cuban restaurants around here, so I don&#8217;t have an opportunity to compare this to any gold standard. If you&#8217;re looking for a straightforward black bean recipe that won&#8217;t get in the way of anything else you&#8217;re serving you could certainly do much worse than these beans. I wouldn&#8217;t expect anyone to write home about them though.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 25px; width: 125px\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top:0; left:0; height: 25px; width: 75px; background: url(http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rating-bar\/rating-front.png) left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 75px; height: 25px; width: 50px; background: url(http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rating-bar\/rating-back.png) right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No recipe for this one. These beans were fine, completely middle of the road fine. They&#8217;re pretty standard soaked black beans with a bit of bacon, green pepper, cider vinegar, and a bay leaf added. The effect of these added flavours was very subtle, so subtle you might not notice them at all. I tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,2],"tags":[325,227,213,324,244,323,322,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}