{"id":434,"date":"2008-12-15T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-12-15T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:24:33","slug":"holiday-gifts-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/holidays\/holiday-gifts-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is always nice getting presents for Christmas, but what is more exciting than receiving is giving, and what a better way to give than by making something. The real spirit of Christmas is about giving of yourself in time and spirit, and making gifts from the kitchen is a perfect way to send those you love a message of good tidings and cheer.<\/span><\/div>\n
For the past 20 + years my kitchens have seen a variety of foodie and scratch made edible gifts ranging from home made smoked meats and sausages, beef jerky, meringue mushroom cookies, chocolate bouchettes de noel (miniature yule logs), corn flake and red hots wreath cookies, sugar cookies, pecan pralines, divinity, sugar and spiced pecans, spice mixes, gourmet ingredient gift baskets, bourbon chocolate pecan pies, and many others I cannot recall.<\/span><\/div>\n
This year I decided to put together some of my spice mixes and give those away, and I also put together a bean soup in a jar with recipe too! With our family focused on high fiber dieting now a bean soup would be the perfect gift from the heart and soul and to the stomach with love. They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, well I can say the way to a woman’s heart is the same, and it was fun making the jars too. So here is how I put the “Six Bean Soup” jars together and the associated recipe card too!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

Six Bean Soup<\/h3>\n
This recipe makes 6 each 3-cup canisters but you can modify the amount based on the size of the mason jar or canister.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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2<\/span><\/td>\nLb.<\/span><\/td>\nBlack beans<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nLb.<\/span><\/td>\nNavy beans<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nLb.<\/span><\/td>\nRed Kidney beans<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nLb.<\/span><\/td>\nGreen split peas<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nLb.<\/span><\/td>\nGreat Northern beans<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nLb.<\/span><\/td>\nPinto beans<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spice Packet Ingredients (Individual bag portion measure)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nTbsp<\/span><\/td>\nBeef bouillon powder (1 Tbsp)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nTbsp<\/span><\/td>\nItalian Seasoning (1 Tbsp)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/span><\/td>\nTbsp<\/span><\/td>\nChives, dried (3 Tbsp)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nTsp.<\/span><\/td>\nSalt (1 Tsp)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nTsp<\/span><\/td>\nCumin (1\/2 Tsp)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nTsp<\/span><\/td>\nBlack Pepper (1\/2 Tsp)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nEach<\/span><\/td>\nBay leaves (1 each)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nPreparation Steps<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/span><\/td>\nLayer the beans in order evenly between the jars, start with one pound of black beans, then layer in the Navy, Red, Split Pea, Great Northern, Pinto, and finish with the other pound of black beans on top.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/span><\/td>\nFill 6 small plastic bags with the spices and seal then top each jar with the enclosed bag.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/span><\/td>\nSeal each jar and wrap for the holiday theme. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
The accompanying recipe card is in the image below, feel free to write up your own version, I have the recipient add 2 cups of onions and 2 cups of celery in addition to a can of stewed tomatoes. You could add a couple cups carrots to other vegetable to your recipe to make it your own!<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n

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Recipe Card Directions<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/span><\/td>\nSoak beans over-night or 3 hours before serving sort and rinse beans with cool water then in a stock pot cover with 9 cups water and bring to a boil for 3 minutes.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/span><\/td>\nDrain beans and rinse beans and return to stock pot and cover with 6 cups water. Add 2 cups onions chopped and 2 cups celery chopped and bring to a boil.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/span><\/td>\nReduce heat to a simmer and add the seasoning packet and continue to simmer until beans are tender or about one and a half to two hours.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/span><\/td>\nAdd one 14-ounce can stewed tomatoes with liquid and simmer another 15 minutes.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/span><\/td>\nServes 6 to 8 generous portions. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is always nice getting presents for Christmas, but what is more exciting than receiving is giving, and what a better way to give than by making something. The real spirit of Christmas is about giving of yourself in time and spirit, and making gifts from the kitchen is a perfect way to send those you love a message of good tidings and cheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[151,2074],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}