Yearly Archives: 2014

Cave of Trouble

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Cave of Trouble (CoT) is/was several things. The name that we made music under for one. It was also the band that worked for Chook Industries. It slowly morphed into only being a label for the music we made. Somewhere during the Chook era, we made a website for the band, and even touted the latest music we were working on, the Cigarette EP. That was a project we actually finished but never updated the site with. That also has never seen the light of day on the posts I was doing on CoT albums. Maybe someday.

This site had a cool feature I was rather proud of, one that is now defunct. The web server checked the weather in Salisbury, MD and displayed a drawing of the appropriate weather behind the monster graphic. Currently, I just have a random weather image being displayed. Also, at the bottom of the page, the weather was displayed in a line that said, “The weather at Bayland is _______ at 7:03 pm.” Bayland refers to [Bayland Aviation], located at the Salisbury airport

So, here is the original version of the Cave of Trouble website.

Cave of Trouble

Black Beans

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So here’s a recipe I make a lot. It originated from something I found online. I then gave it to Mike and forgot about it. He made some modifications to it and sent it back to me. I made some more modifications, and this is the end result.

**Note**: Mike currently has a version of this which is sometimes referred to as *Mike’s 14 Hour Beans*. Who knows exactly what the details of it are or how good it is. We do know that the last 10 minutes of the cooking are extremely time sensitive…

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Black Bean Soup

Prep 15
min • Cook 8 hour • Makes
8 •
Source Tim Gray

Ingredients

  • 1 lb of dried black beans
  • 3 pieces of bacon
  • 1 jalapeño pepper
  • 2 serrano peppers
  • 1/2 onion
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 1 tsp rosemary
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 4 cups of vegetable broth
  • 2 cups of water
  • 2 juice limes

Directions

1. Sort and wash
beans.

2. Finely chop onion, peppers,
and garlic.

3. Fry bacon and
chop.

4. Fry onions in bacon
fat.

5. Add all ingredients to crock
pot and cook on low for 8 hours. Alternately, simmer on the
stove top in a covered dutch oven for about 6
hours.

6. Near the end, mush the beans
against the side to thicken.

Notes

Adjust the amount of water added for thicker or more
watery beans (1-3 cups of water).

Adjust peppers for desired hotness. You can also add
cayenne pepper powder.