Oy

[wenchpower]

First attempt at Ash Wednesday dinner: black bean soup from allrecipes.com. Turns out that when they said to cook the beans for an hour or until soft, they meant three hours

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[laserhead]

You were cooking the beans from dry, yes? If you've already pre-soaked them they 'only' take an hour to cook. If you went straight from dry, then you'd be lucky to get them soft in 3 hours.

(Can you tell I did this the first time too?)

[wenchpower]

Yeah, we'd been pre-soaking them since Tuesday morning. Apparently the problem was that the recipe told us to salt them before cooking them, and that causes them to take longer to soften.

[rafferbee]

Ahh! My husband totally stopped by after our ultrasound this morning and got himself a sausage McMuffin before remembering (too late) it was Ash Wednesday.

[ladykenyon]

I totally kept vegetarian yesterday!

I was so proud!

I normally forget this stuff.

So sorry about the failed dinner attempts... that sounds frustrating.