My apologies for the icon. I need more Transformers icons if I'm gonna keep this up.

Title: Interlude: Ratchet
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Ratchet, human OC

( So what do you do with a degree in sociology? Interview giant alien robots on behalf of the U.S. government, apparently. )

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Decided to try some different varieties of beans when I was at the supermarket today, since last time my bag of Anasazi beans turned out to make a pretty fantastic complement to the ground turkey in my white chili recipe. I now find myself in possession of a sixteen pound bag of cow peas- small brown oblong kin to the black-eyed pea. Various net searches indicate that they are also called crowder peas. Is there a cooking or flavor reason most of the recipes I see for this sort of pea call for the involvement of ham, or is it just that that was an easily available meat in the area where the beans in question are common? I've also found some southeast Asian recipes that involve cooking them in coconut milk, which sounds interesting too.