Plans for today (2025)

[SoCalZone10]

I find that soaking first cuts down on cooking time, which in my eyes is less to GA Power.

Edit: Plus I'm impatient...

The water was yellow when I dumped out the first batch.

 

[Barriehie]

The water was yellow when I dumped out the first batch.

Mine is always colored as well. I pour it on the plants.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

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Thought these were beans but possibly blackeyed peas tho not round enough probably. Given half a bucket of them - grown around here I think

They look like they black eyed peas to me.

I think they are!

Do they have any different cooking requirements than beans?

No. When I cook them I soak them overnight, pour boiling water on them. They take around 40 minutes in the IP, instant pot, on high pressure cook. That would be a couple or so hours on a stove.

Here's a good start.

I usually cook mine in a crockpot, the longer it stews the better the flavor.

That recipe link is in a crockpot.

I cook mine in seasoned bone broth. The only thing I ever cook in water is roasted bones!

Black eyed peas are black eyed beans. Same thing hence same cooking requirements.

Specifically a type of cowpea (a legume), even though they're called "peas"

 

[badjak]

I'm in recovery mode....
Plan was to do nothing at all, but when I got home I noticed that the river water level was low, so we* went in and fitted the pipe to the water pump.
I'll connect the cables tomorrow and then we test.
Fingers crossed

* We is my main guy here and I