wjsullivan.net

Overloading the Machine

Cooking Tips

Recipes

Cooking times for things

all times calculated on my stove, YMMV

Sweet sticky brown rice: 50 minutes

Roasting vegetables

Beets

Scrub beets but do not peel.

Wrap each beet separately in aluminum foil. Place on a baking sheet and bake until the beets feel somewhat tender when squeezed, about 1¼ hours.

Unwrap the beets. To peel, working one at a time, impale a hot beet at the stem end on a fork. Using a small knife or your fingers (careful), pare off the skin.

Potatoes

Roast at 425.

Pressure cooker

Unsoaked dried black beans

2 cups black beans, 5 cups water. Add a little oil to the water. Cook for 24 minutes. Remove from heat, let sit for 5 minutes, and slowly release pressure.

Unsoaked dried red beans

Cook for 40 minutes.

Delicata squash

Preheat oven to 400F. Peel squash with vegetable peeler. Cut in half lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and pulp. Cut into 3/4in pieces. Put in a bowl and toss with olive oil and salt to coat. Spread in a single layer on a baking sheet covered with foil or parchment paper. Bake for 30-40 minutes, stirring 3 times.

Thyme is a good addition.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum- stances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could. It was in the days of the rains that their prayers went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri, goddess of the Night. The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday. Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique...

-- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"