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Pork Rillettes with Camembert Cheese, Pickles & Strawberry, Pork & Bean Stew & Bread - December 2025

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Beignets Haricots, a staple of Cameroonian Cuisine, has always been a favourite dish in this house! It's delicious, fragrant, and comforting as a hug. The sort of food you delectably eat with your fingers! It was really nice and pretty special too, cooking it with Dad! Happy Saturday!

Ingredients (serves 6):

4 tablespoons sunflower oil

1 1/2 onion

2 shallots

1 Green Onion

half a long Garden Chilli 

1 heaped tablespoon Ginger Paste 

4 garlic cloves, minced

4 Whole Peeled Tomatoes + 1/2 cup of their juice

1/2 cup water

2 medium tins red kidney beans

1/2 teaspoon fleur de sel or sea salt flakes

1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper

a large bowl full of hot, freshly fried Beignets 

In a large pot over a medium-high flame, heat sunflower oil.

Peel and finely chop onions, shallots, and Green Onion. Stir them into the hot oil, and fry, about 3 minutes, stirring often until softened.

Thinly slice Chilli, and add to the pot. Cook, a couple of minutes more.

Stir in Ginger Paste and cook, 1 minute.

Add minced garlic, and cook, 1 minute more.

Spoon Whole Peeled Tomatoes and their juice into a blender, and process until smooth.

Pour Tomato Purée and water into the pot, and give a good stir. Reduce heat to medium, and cook, 10 minutes, stirring often.

Rinse and drain red kidney beans, and stir them into the pot. Season with fleur de sel and black pepper.

Bring to a slow boil, cover with a lid, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer, at least half an hour to three-quarters of an hour, until the sauce has thickened and become spicy and fragrant.

Spoon Spicy Bean Sauce into serving pot, and bring to the table, along with hot Beignets.

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Angolan

Mozambican 

Cape Verdean 

Fudge me... Today's gym workout kicked my ass! After it I went to a friend's place and we played video games. I had a cup of coffee and an apple

Bean Stew

The witch couldn’t believe her eyes.

Some non-magical people liked to go on and on about how cruel and evil witches were, but here was a recipe for bean stew. Bean stew!

The witch looked away from her recipe book to check that her fluffy red cat was still lounging on the floor in front of the bookcase. It blinked back adorably.

Sure, the book described the meal as heartwarming; that much made sense. But when it came to that, wasn’t cuddling a cat way more efficient? Was there really some human who’d seen those lovely toe beans and thought they wanted to scoop them up on a nacho?

There had to be some kind of explanation...