Chorizo and black bean soup

[bif]

http://cookingwiththemark.blogspot.com

Ingredients
1 pound chorizo sausages
a bunch of greens, chopped
1 medium size onion, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped
2 cans black beans, drained and rinsed
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 T cumin
black pepper to taste
6 cups reduced sodium chicken broth or stock
1/2 c dry sherry
Cheddar cheese, shredded

Directions
Grill the chorizo until nicely browned. Let cool and chop into bite size pieces. In a large pot, sauté onion until soft. Add green pepper and garlic and sauté for 5 or 6 minutes. Add broth, chorizo. beans, greens, cumin, black pepper, and 1/4 cup sherry. Cook for 1/2 hour or so. Add the rest of the sherry about 10 minutes before serving. Pass a bowl of cheddar cheese to top the soup.

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. That looks delicious. I don't eat chorizo anymore as the producers here in Arizona/Mexico...

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... are not hesitant at all about listing EXACTLY what parts of the pig are used.
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Now, I know all hot dogs, and many sausages are like this, but they don't shove
it in my face on their list of ingredients.
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Happily, I tried a vegetarian chorizo from the same manufacturer and I found it
to be the only "faux meat" that tasted and felt like the original.
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Have you ever seen "Midnight Run" with Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin?
They're in a diner out west, flat broke, scraping together their pennies for a cup
of coffee when the waitress comes over and describes the breakfast special of
the day -- which is chorizo and eggs.
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Charles Grodin starts crying because he can't have chorizo and eggs. Very good
movie -- very funny.
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Grodin's character is pretty annoying and at one point DeNiro says (while counting
them off on two fingers), "I got two words for you... shutthe fuckup!!!"
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[Jenoch]

4. Midnight Run is one of my favorite movies.

One of my favorite lines is "...if you two don't start paying attention to business, I'm going to stab you through the heart with a pencil."

However, I have always been confused about the $1,000 bills used in the movie. They were last printed in 1934 and were taken out of circulation in 1969. Each one of those bills is worth more than $1,000.

[TxDemChem]

2. Sounds tasty

I will bookmark this to cook this upcoming weekend.

[NJCher]

3. will try this tonight

I have some black beans to use up. All I have to do is pick up the chorizos on the way home. Maybe some sherry, as I think my only sherry is an orange version.

Thanks, Bif!


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