| First, Patrick prepped his ingredients:
Spring garlic, diced
Spring garlic is immature garlic, which looks similar to green onions but tastes like garlic.
Carrots, washed with tops removed
Stinging nettles, leaves only
Use gloves to pick these and be careful once you get them into the kitchen. The sting goes away when they are wilted or cooked. My hand still hurts from getting stung earlier today while weeding.
Step zero: Put 3/4 c. brown rice and water in the rice cooker and turn it on.
Step one: Saute garlic and carrots together (with oil and salt).
Step two: Heat black beans (ours were leftovers that we had soaked and cooked previously).
Step three: Combine beans and nettles with the carrots and garlic and stir as needed. Cook until the nettles are wilted.
This is only half the meal still in the pan, as Patrick put his on his plate already
Here's how it looks all together, with an avocado on top:
Ta-da! That's the dinner we grew and cooked! It was absolutely delicious, although next time I'd skip the avocado. |
