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Bean Base Thick Soup: 8 quart pot recipe
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Vegetarian: please take out meat
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Vegetarian: please take out meat
Ingredients:
2.5 cups dry beans, including:
1 cup runner beans, ½ cup black beans,
1 cup other dry bean varieties.
¼ cup dry hull-less pumpkin seeds
Day 1: soak above overnight in water, no salt
½ cup brown rice
½ cup buckwheat grouts, can substitute/add whole wheat
berries
¼ cup chia seeds, optional
6 oz can of tomato paste, or use your own tomatoes
1 can drained black olives, whole or chopped
olive oil or avocado oil, if meat is too lean
3 medium heads garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2-5 jalapeño peppers, to taste, chopped
About 1 cup chopped fresh herbs: parsley, sage, rosemary,
thyme, others you like.
Small scoops of avocado and grated cheese
½ to 1 whole chicken, or 1-2 lbs stew beef chunks, or ham
bone and pork chunks, or your choice
Day 2, if using chicken, put cut up chicken into steamer
with 8 qt stock below steamer and steam until chicken meat falls off bones.
Remove meat from bones and return meat only to chicken stock. Skim off excess
fat if desired. If using beef chunks, brown in skillet. Ham bone and pork
require no additional preparation
Day 2, while chicken is steaming---after beans and pumpkins
seeds have soaked overnight, pour off water and rinse in colander, put beans
back in a cooking pot and heat to about 150 degrees Fahrenheit, remove from
heat and let sit for about 15 minutes—then pour off water and rinse.
Meat and beans are now ready to begin cooking in water or
stock, using 8 qt stock pot. Cover and
bring to boil, then slow boil for two hours or until beans are soft. Use
time to prepare the remaining ingredients. Add rice, buckwheat and dry grains,
slow cook or simmer another hour.
Add tomato paste and black olives. Add olive oil or avocado
oil if needed. Allow another hour to simmer.
Add chopped garlic, onion, peppers, and herbs. Simmer for 15
minutes.
Serve hot in bowls with fresh avocado and grated cheese as
additional options.
As I’m based in Paris and work in the tech ecosystem, there is a lot of chatter about luxury brands and their future. Paris is still the city of outrageously beautiful goods and clothes from powerful brands. Luxury shops are still crowded with countless of tourists. Yet, when I talk with people around me, it has become much more trendy to find a new up and coming brand before anyone else that manufactures quality products — maybe it’s a sign that the hipster culture is becoming mainstream, maybe not. But it is certainly a sign that there is an opportunity for new luxury startups.
回覆刪除For example, Dymant is a French startup that works with luxury craftsmen to design, produce and sell limited edition objects to a demanding clientele. Late last year, its co-founder and CEO David Alexandre Klingbeil asked me a hypothetical question — “what do you give your wife when she already has three Hermès handbags?”
I still don’t have a good answer to this question, but I know for sure that buying a handbag that is clearly identified with its brand feels tacky to me — I don’t want to give a bag as a present that has the [url=http://www.careercluster4me.com]louis vuitton outlet[/url] initials all over it.
Knowing all this, I believe there are opportunities for luxury startups. These days, it has never been easier to start these startups. They can opt for a very lean manufacturing process to scale much more quickly than a traditional company who manufactures everything. They don’t need a big marketing team. For example, Everlane has managed to attract hundreds of thousands of customers in the U.S. in only a few years.
Everlane clothes and accessories are reasonably priced, but more importantly, they don’t scream Everlane. That’s probably why I find them much more attractive than traditional luxury goods.
I believe that, at a larger scale, that the authority of well-established brands is fading away — and it is especially true for brands who sell high-end products.