Comments on: Chipotle Black-Eyed Peas

By: Heikki

Heikki — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:16:38 +0000

Hi flying,

adding kombu makes the beans more digestible and adds flavour, but it is not an essential part of the recipe.

By: flying

flying — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:44:50 +0000

I wonder, what is the kombu added in for? Is it for the taste or is it there to cook the beans faster or something like that?

Thanks :)

By: Heikki

Heikki — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:29:07 +0000

Hi Leslie, glad you have nice memories from here. At the moment the passenger ships are having trouble traveling between Helsinki and Tallinn. The shipping channels are packed with ice – it’s the harshest winter in years!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:54:21 +0000

I love your comments about Talin, and food. I was lucky enough to travel between Talin and Helsinki a couple years ago (in February! – very unusual for an American family), and totally loved the people on each side of the Baltic! Love your recipes. You keep my table lively. Many thanks.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:28:44 +0000

I have never cooked Black Eyed Peas, but this just inspired me to give them a try! Just found your blog…love it!

P.S. I just posted an Arbonne Giveaway on my blog (Arbonne is a vegan certified skincare line). Please come check it out and enter!

By: Heikki

Heikki — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:37:03 +0000

Thanks all for the comments! Carlota, if you have liquid smoke, smoked paprika or smoked salt, you could try those combined with some dried chili powder. Cook's Thesaurus recommends ½ teaspoon liquid smoke per 1 jalapeno pepper for a chipotle substitute, but that might be a bit too much liquid smoke in my opinion – it's easy to go overboard with that stuff!

By: kala

kala — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:45:17 +0000

Yum, that looks awesome!

By: Carlota

Carlota — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:18:01 +0000

That looks really good..we don’t have anything with chipotle in brazil..how is the flavour..so I can think in another thing to make a sub.

love love the blog!

By: miss v

miss v — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:51:23 +0000

i do not eat enough black-eye peas! this sounds like a wonderful recipe!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:33:47 +0000

That looks great. I always forget to soak the peas and lentils ahead of time as well.

I have all the ingredients sitting around, I think I’ll try making this in the next day or two. Chipotle is such a wonderful flavor ^_^