sufferin’ succotash

Just finished cooking a nice batch of succotash, and I’m waiting for the biscuits to come out of the oven so I can stuff my face. I have no idea why I was craving succotash, but I had all the fixin’s on hand, so I decided to indulge my fancy.

If you haven’t made it before, it can sound like an odd mixture, but it’s actually quite good. Today, I made it the easy way — cooked a chopped onion in about 3 Tb butter til soft, then dumped in two cans of drained Niblets corn, a can of rinsed and drained kidney beans, bag of frozen baby limas, a small can of chopped mild green chilies, a can of finely chopped tomatoes (half-assed drained) and 2 ts sugar, some salt, pepper, a couple pinches of nutmeg and several shakes of cayenne pepper, and 1/2 a cup or so of half and half. (I had no heavy cream on hand.) Cooked it for a while til it started to thicken a bit, then let it sit while I mixed and am baking a batch of buttermilk biscuits, because the succotash is better if eaten while warm but not piping hot.

A very simple dinner, but just what I was in the mood for. I wish my damn camera was working, because the succotash has good eye appeal, with the green and yellow and the red from the kidney beans and tomatoes…

Tomorrow, I’m roasting a chicken, and we’re having home-baked bread and some garlic-y Brussels sprouts, a family favorite. And I’ll probably bake some sort of “sit and watch tv and nibble on sweets” treat, since we have both “Rome” and “Battlestar Galactica” to enjoy on Sunday night! Tonight, nothing to watch, so I’ll be curling up with Terry Pratchett (my umpteenth time reading “Small Gods.”) Sounds like a good night to me!