Cajun French: brûler – burn
Fresh seasonal peas and beans are one of our weekly purchases from the farmers market. Having purchased purple hull peas this week, we decided to cook them Saturday afternoon. We started the cooking process and headed off to do other things; not a good idea. We were working and totally absorbed in our project and completely forgot about the beans. All of a sudden Laurie jumped up and ran to the kitchen, smelling the burning pot on the way. Sure enough – burned pot bottom. The beans had a rather good smoky flavor – more about this later.
