{"id":622,"date":"2007-03-20T17:57:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/20\/the-secret-ingredient-is-beer\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T22:57:19","slug":"the-secret-ingredient-is-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Ingredient is Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maya and I had our third cooking whirlwind last week – so fun! Besides making the requisite Rice Nut Burgers<\/a>, we (Maya) made two casseroles of Chicken and Black Bean Enchilades. They turned out very delicious by all accounts.<\/p>\n

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Maya cooked the black beans from scratch. She just put them in a pot with water and let them boil until they were soft. Me, I never make beans, so I was perhaps overly fascinated by the process.<\/p>\n

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The chicken was from “scratch” too. I had roasted a chicken (and fed 6 adults!) the previous night. I pulled the rest of the meat off, and May brought along several cooked chicken breasts (cooked in the solar oven). The beans and chicken got mixed together at some point.<\/p>\n

To make the enchilada sauce, Maya pureed one large can of Muir Glen tomatoes with one jar of salsa in the blender. Then she added the mixture to a pan of sauteed onions. She also added one whole beer and some spices (cumin and cinnamon). Everything simmered slowly.<\/p>\n

To make the enchilades, Maya covered the bottom of the casserole with the sauce. Then she wet a corn tortilla down in the sauce, put some stuff in, and rolled it up. Easy! (Especially when you’re just watching.)<\/p>\n

Finally the whole thing was smothered in grated Jack cheese. Oh dear, I am making myself hungry. (Good thing I don’t write about sex too much ; )<\/p>\n

And if I were any kind of food photographer at all I would have a gorgeous photo of the end result, but I don’t. In fact, I have a lot more respect for food photographers these days; all my photos of food look a little gross to me… But believe me, these enchilades are well worth making. And if you come and visit maybe I’ll make them for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maya and I had our third cooking whirlwind last week – so fun! Besides making the requisite Rice Nut Burgers, we (Maya) made two casseroles of Chicken and Black Bean Enchilades. They turned out very delicious by all accounts. Maya … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}