I have made dinner...DO YOU SEE?
Made dinner for my folks again, revisiting an old favorite. chunkysquares and I pioneered these sandwiches back in the old days, when rum and coffee flowed in great abundance.
(modeled by my dad's famous manhands, which have doubled for those of author Paulo Coelho in his HP commercial)
The basic form of this sandwich is one half of a round loaf of bread with the insides smushed to the side. This forms a cavernous pocket for you to pour the filling into.
The basic filling consists of couscous and beans, whatever type you'd like. In this case I used plain couscous and black beans, spiced with black pepper, cumin, and cinnamon.
You can get fancy and add chopped veggies, meats, whatever. I cooked up some carrots, spring onions, and garlic, sautéed in olive oil, and added some chopped beef round spiced in the same manner as the couscous.
What you end up with is a gigantic sandwich that should be capable of providing the bulk of your calories for the day and putting you in a state of torpor.
I, however, could not rest after eating this sandwich, as there was work to be done. I've had some pig legs hanging in the fridge and I needed to cook them before they went bad. My endeavor: pig's trotters stuffed with potatoes.
This recipe is 6+ hours of work and comes from The Whole Beast. I plan on spreading out the work over a couple days.
The first task was to bone out the pig legs. I am by no means a trained chef, so this took me about 1.5-2 hours. When you're struggling with the fatty appendages of a beast for so long, it starts to get to you. When I broke off the foot at the ankle (the hoof needs to stay in the leg to seal that end, you see) and bent the joint back over itself, I saw face. I thought this was very entertaining, so I made my dad go get the camera to take a picture. I now share it with you.
