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[Thief Silver]

It just looks like chocolate pudding.

Ah; I must taste this. It is now a goal of mine to taste that pudding. In Whatever full version you come out with, tapioca pearls or not.

I mean, how do the Black beans fit in there taste wise?

[Yoshi]

They don't have a very strong flavor. I'd guess they are there for nutritional value and to thicken.

[Doc Holliday]

I can make the bologna myself.

Really?

I'm really interested in this now legendary catfish! If it does well, I'd like to see what you can do with pinto beans, iceburg lettuce, and peanuts! Just keep a vanilla fist entry on your menu where you take a boring American dinner staple and spice it up!

[Yoshi]

Yeah, seriously. This thread is about our friend's restaurant. But what's the only tag it has? "Chef buttcheeks."

Fixed

[icarusfall]

Ah; I must taste this. It is now a goal of mine to taste that pudding. In Whatever full version you come out with, tapioca pearls or not.

I mean, how do the Black beans fit in there taste wise?

Like Yoshi said, they don't have a very strong flavor. They provide the body of the pudding.

You can make it at home - I literally just made it an hour ago in my blender. Get 2 cans of black beans and rinse them in a colander to get all the juice off them. Put em in the blender. Pour in one can of coconut milk (the kind with the super thick "cream" in it), add a few tablespoons of sugar, a splash of vanilla extract, 2 big spoon fulls of peanut butter, and a tablespoon of cocoa powder. Small (seriously! small!) pinch of salt.

Blend this mixture for a solid 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides and do it again. By now it should be a homogenous mixture that's pretty thick. Taste for sweetness and adjust as necessary. You may have a little lump here and there since your blender isn't a commercial one like mine, but it'll get you close. Strain it if you like. Aside from the sugar content it's actually pretty healthy.

Put it in a bowl in the fridge and it'll thicken up a bit more.

[Yoshi]

I keep staring at the menu, and the starters are the things that just have my mouth watering. I'm all about the catfish, but man the cheese and olives sound awesome.

[No One]

Like Yoshi said, they don't have a very strong flavor. They provide the body of the pudding.

You can make it at home - I literally just made it an hour ago in my blender. Get 2 cans of black beans and rinse them in a colander to get all the juice off them. Put em in the blender. Pour in one can of coconut milk (the kind with the super thick "cream" in it), add a few tablespoons of sugar, a splash of vanilla extract, 2 big spoon fulls of peanut butter, and a tablespoon of cocoa powder. Small (seriously! small!) pinch of salt.

Blend this mixture for a solid 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides and do it again. By now it should be a homogenous mixture that's pretty thick. Taste for sweetness and adjust as necessary. You may have a little lump here and there since your blender isn't a commercial one like mine, but it'll get you close. Strain it if you like. Aside from the sugar content it's actually pretty healthy.

Put it in a bowl in the fridge and it'll thicken up a bit more.

I'm going to give this a shot tomorrow. I know this reply was to Thief, but thanks for the recipe.

[icarusfall]

Sure, I'll tell y'all how to make anything I do.

Feel free to change the recipe and fuck around with spicing! For example, a little white pepper in it'd be nice. Maybe some clove, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg - any of that sort of thing are obvious choices. Coffee would be good. If you have a spice grinder you can grind the beans into dust and put some of that in! I'm just thinking out loud now!

Just be sure you get all the water off the beans. Maybe even dry them in a kitchen towel. Too much water and it'll be soupy. That can be fixed if you just heat the mixture in a pan and add a bit of corn starch slurry, but the goal is No Cooking.

[Fe 26]

That would be an interesting title for a series of books. "No Cooking, Cooking"

[cigsthecat]

Time to update the blog icarus. Take some pictures of how the restaurant is coming along.