movie night food

vij

cool thank you, I think Ill do :

Pork and Black Bean chilli,
Garlic Bread
Rice

Tortilla Chips or Nachos
Garlic Yogurt
Hot Chilli Dip

Lager/Coca Cola/tea/coffee

and some form of pastry type dessert.

Popcorn

Thanks for the ideas people This is all easy enough for me to watch the movie to.

CCP

Rather off topic, I know, but how do you make pork and black bean chilli, vij? I'm rather partial to chilli but I only ever make it with beef, so that sounds an interesting variation.

Thank you!

debtmuncher

nachos would have been down on my list too. i get the value tortilla chips. dh likes to layer it up (chips, sauce, jalenpeno peppers cheese) but i just like the one layer.

vij

Im a bit of cheat and throw everything in the slow cooker.

3 onions diced red or white
500g pork mince ( I use sainsburys organic as I always seem to get some on sale at least every 2 weeks)
1 box passata
1 can baked beans
1 can tomatoes (chopped)
2 cans black beans
2 handfuls oats
2 handfuls red lentils
squidge garlic puree
2 tablespoons tumeric
1 tablespoon crushed dried chillis
2 tablespoons cumin seeds
Glass of wine/cider
teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

Put all into a cold switched off slow cooker (mine is 6.5L) give a good stir to mix together and break up the meat. Switch to high stir every hour or so, it cooks in about 4 hrs but will happily sit for 9, though you have to soak the slow cooker pan after if you do sit it a long time as the oats make a sticky bit at the base and sides.

If you are really organised you could soak and boil beans and make it by frying onions adding spices, addins then searing meat then putting in all the cans but I have a lazy streak

if you like it really hot add some finely diced scotch bonnet,

if you want to thicken add tom puree or more oats and lentils. You could grate in a couple of carrots and they wouldnt be noticed.

CCP

That sounds gorgeous, vij - that's on to my list when I get back from holiday. I don't have a slow cooker but I think it should work in a pan on the hob - that's how I usually do chilli, anyway.