Plans for today (2025)

[SoCalZone10]

I find that soaking first cuts down on cooking time, which in my eyes is less to GA Power.

Edit: Plus I'm impatient...

The water was yellow when I dumped out the first batch.

 

[Barriehie]

The water was yellow when I dumped out the first batch.

Mine is always colored as well. I pour it on the plants.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

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Thought these were beans but possibly blackeyed peas tho not round enough probably. Given half a bucket of them - grown around here I think

They look like they black eyed peas to me.

I think they are!

Do they have any different cooking requirements than beans?

No. When I cook them I soak them overnight, pour boiling water on them. They take around 40 minutes in the IP, instant pot, on high pressure cook. That would be a couple or so hours on a stove.

Here's a good start.

I usually cook mine in a crockpot, the longer it stews the better the flavor.

That recipe link is in a crockpot.

I cook mine in seasoned bone broth. The only thing I ever cook in water is roasted bones!

Black eyed peas are black eyed beans. Same thing hence same cooking requirements.

Specifically a type of cowpea (a legume), even though they're called "peas"

 

[badjak]

I'm in recovery mode....
Plan was to do nothing at all, but when I got home I noticed that the river water level was low, so we* went in and fitted the pipe to the water pump.
I'll connect the cables tomorrow and then we test.
Fingers crossed

* We is my main guy here and I

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Water levels are low here, so when we get home today, we'll be on the roof, cleaning out the guttering just in case it does actually rain tomorrow and Sunday. We need to recover all the water we can at the moment.