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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Sep 9

Plant based crockpot chili :^) Plant based ground beef, garlic powder and onion powder. Bell pepper. Chili powder, cumin, paprika, oregano, s&p. Honey, homemade maple syrup. Tomato sauce, veggie broth. Diced tomato. Kidney beans, black beans, a banana pepper, a cayenne pepper, and a serrano pepper.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Aug 6

Chicken of the Woods picatta that I made last night. I loosely followed a recipe from Very Vegan Val, w a few subs: used regular butter instead of vegan butter, real parmigiano reggiano instead of a vegan alt; & I didn't have white wine, so I subbed in white wine vinegar diluted in vegetable broth.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ur telling me a vegetable fried this rice?? 🤪
Chives are from my gardennnnn. 😏
Matthew grilled the tofu for me. I just lazy marinated it in a mix of the Japanese BBQ sauce, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and water. Basically a half-assed lazy man's teriyaki, really (just slightly less sweet). 🤣

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Foxfire Nails @foxfirenails.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 27

Is it weird to add corn to au gratin potatoes? Maybe, but idc. 😂 I came across a crockpot au gratin potato recipe & one thing about me is that I love a crockpot recipe. They only listed salt, pepper, and garlic powder for seasoning, but I also added onion powder, rosemary, time, & basil.

Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 24

BBQ smoked tofu. Coated in olive oil & bbq dry rub, marinated. Went on the smoker, then I added bbq sauce & maple syrup. Back on the smoker, covered. Turned out great. Matthew said he saw a vid of someone making this & he does "plant based smoking." I said, "I also do plant based smoking." 🤣

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 24

Yesterday, I pulled somewhere between 2.5 & 3 gallons of sap from my maples & boiled it down. I got about 1.5 cups of syrup this time. It's interesting how dark this batch came out compared to the first.
#SuburbanSapCollecting #SapSeason #MapleTrees #MapleSyrup #MakingSyrupInTheSuburbs

Photo taken in a kitchen, closeup of three air-tight flip-top bottles lined up in a row, on a cutting board. The bottle on the far left is filled with an amber colored liquid, afixed with a black label that has the words "maple syrup" written in gold marker. The jar in the middle is full of a darker espresso colored maple syrup, while the jar on the right is just under a third full of the same color as the middle jar. The middle and right jars do not have labels yet.

Photo overlooking a pot of boiling sap, sitting on a grate fixed in place by landscaping bricks. Below it, you can see a wood burning fire, surrounded by ashes of previous fires.

Closeup photo of a pan filled with sap being cooked into syrup, it is a rich amber color, and it is just barely starting to come to a boil.

Closeup photo of an old-school Pyrex glass measuring cup filled just about to the 1.5 cup mark with a rich dark maple syrup. The background is just a blurry shot of the rest of the kitchen.

Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 10

I built a makeshift brick oven out of some landscaping stones that were leftover from previous homeowner that I haven't used for garden beds yet. The pot is thrifted. I finished off the last hour in the house. We ended up with exactly 1 cup of syrup from 2 gallons of sap, lol. ~ 5.5ish hrs cooking.

Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 10

Cooking sap in the suburbs ✨️

Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 9

I pulled a half gallon of sap from my sugar maple. That gives me a total of two gallons of sap at the moment, which will probably give me about two cups of syrup once it's cooked down. 🤣

A photo of a gallon water jug filled halfway with tree sap. The background is a blurry kitchen background, a cutting board, some black cabinets, a sliver of a window.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 9

I transferred the sap from the bucket under my red maple. I got about 1.5 gallons. This might be the only good sap I get from this tree this year bc it's budding already??? 😭 I just noticed the yesterday... I haven't pulled the sugar maple yet, but that tree doesn't have any buds yet.

Photo of a downward angle looking onto a kitchen island. On it is a gallon water hug filled with tree sap, and a kitchen kettle filled partway with sap.

Photo of tree branches from below with a clear blue sky as the background. The branches are bare, aside from spring buds.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Mar 2

My strawberry cheong is complete and strained out! 🥰 It's so beautiful and delish, and I'm so glad it ended up fitting perfectly in this bottle!

#cheong #StrawberryCheong #EasyRecipes #fruit #syrup #FruitSyrup #JuiceConcentrate #StrawberrySyrup

Photo of a hand holding a flip-top air tight glass bottle against a black curtain background. The bottle is filled with a red syrup, which is strawberry cheong.

Photo of a hand holding a Mason jar against a black curtain background. The jar is filled with a red syrup, which is strawberry cheong, before straining out the chunks of cut-up starberries.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Feb 23

We're rounding the end of our first winter in our house, and my mom gave me a couple of her taps and buckets so I could tap the two maple trees that we have! One is a sugar maple & the other is a red maple.

#maple #sap #TreeTapping #MapleTrees #MapleSyrup #SuburbanSapCollecting #RealMapleSyrup

Photo of a suburban yard in late winter, a wide sugar maple tree is prominent in the foreground. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

Photo of a wide sugar maple tree at a downward angle, surrounded by the remnants of a late winter's snow. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

Photo of a suburban yard in late winter, a red maple tree is prominent in the foreground. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

Photo of a red maple tree at a downward angle, surrounded by the remnants of a late winter's snow. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Feb 20

It's fascinating to see how much the fruit shrinks as the sugar pulls the juices from it.

Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Feb 20

I've read that you can make cheong with pretty much any edible fruit/vegetable, so I'm going to try and experiment a bit. I'll probably use the strained out fruits to make a compote so they don't get wasted when the cheong is done marinating.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Feb 20

I put it in the fridge right away, knowing I'd probably forget about it elsewhere and miss the point when it would need to be moved into the fridge, and the process just takes a little longer in the fridge versus keeping it in room temp for the first couple days or so.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Feb 20

She's so beautiful. I started making strawberry cheong. It's been going for about 4 days now, and there's still a very thin layer of sugar left on the bottom needing to dissolve.

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Spicy Bean @spicybeancuisine.bsky.social · Feb 15

We got vegan Ethiopian food for Valentine's dinner at Lulu EthioVegan Cuisine in Minneapolis! 😊 Started with sambusa to share, and I got ginger tea and a spiced pasta.

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Nik Rymer @nikkifirestarter.bsky.social · Feb 10

Finished this dead tree back in Dec of 2020. Lower half (trunk & roots) is healed, upper half with the branches is fresh in these photos. Tbh, the roots on the hand could use some touchups, but that's the gamble you play sometimes with hands when your client does manual labor. 😅 #tattoos #TreeTattoo