The Beans are Taking A Bath

Saving money just makes me giddy!

Yesterday, my girl and I got cooking in the kitchen again. I got out the crockpot to a chant of 'We are making a recipe, a recipe. We making a recipe!'' Nora thinks butter goes in everything so out came a stick of butter from the fridge. To her disappointment the recipe was for black beans in the crockpot.

Complete bummer for her.

Then, I poured the 8 cups of water over the 1 lb of black beans to let them soak. ''Mommy, what you doing to the beans!'' Explaining they needed to be washed, I came up with the parallel thought that ''Beans are taking a bath.''

The recipe took on new life as Nora shrieked about how silly the beans were for taking a bath in my pot. (Let them soak overnight)

Next morning, I chopped up a whole clump of cilantro and threw it in the crockpot with a tsp. of salt, 2 T. of garlic powder and an additional 3 c. of water.

A fabulous, low cooked 6 hrs later, the crockpot had created the equivalent of 9-10 cans of black beans! All for the astounding cost of around $0.25/can!