BEANS

C: The wondrous black bean, so good with Mexican food or any kind of food really

D: The horrid lima bean, created by devils

I had never heard of black beans in mexican food before I left arizona! I don't care for them at all.

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Still, classic. Lima beans may be chalk in vegetable form, but their little baby cousin butterbeans are tasty.

Beans on toast is England's greatest culinary contribution.

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"Oh, don't get me started on beans, or I'll be jabberin' away all night about beans."

i love black beans! and refried pinto beans full of LARD!

Is that redheaded kid one of the Harry Potter actors?

Mandee, I'm so glad there's someone keeping the word "grodey" alive.

black beans

I have never eaten bean pie.

Then again, I am a big fat white jew.

Eating black-eyed peas now. One of the two best beans ever. Just keep them far from hamhocks.

When I was a little boy, I loved lima beans. I wouldn't touch a mushroom or an onion (among about 5 zillion other things), but lima beans were rad.

black beans

...are the other half of the best-beans-ever pair.

I make a mean black bean chili. Better than anybody's chili anywhere, anytime. People beg me to make it, in fact.

Someday we will be able to email food.

Download a chili.

I am willing to make chili for any ILXer who wants to visit me in SF. Not quite e-chili, but close enough.

avocado on the black beans

e-vocado

iFarts

i was just thinking about starting a thread for BEANS, forgetting i'd already started one.

in these tough times, i am enjoying saving money with these timeless kitchen staples!

Had black beans + sriracha + peanut butter for dinner tonite. MMMMM.

i got this bag of yellow beans at a farmer's market but i don't know what kind they are (the bag said "yellow beans"). but i cooked some up last night with kale, bok choy, crimini mushrooms, yellow pepper, shallots, bbq sauce, etc, and they turned out pretty nice. i had enough for tonight and there's still some left for tomorrow.

and that's only about a third of the bag i bought.

if any londoners are ever at papa dels accross the road from highgate tube they do the most amazing italian twist on a full english with home made spicy baked beans, killer.

I live on chickpeas - chickpeas with tomato and sausage, chickpeas with garlic and silverbeet... chickpease ftw.

rice and beans

lately, beans are my very favorite thing to cook/eat. weird, cuz i never until recently cared for them.

take a bag of dry red (or pinto or black) beans, rinse them, then boil and cool or soak overnight. when you're ready to cook, add oil, aromatic veggies, herbs & spices*, and boil til soft, an hour or two, keeping covered w water. serve reduced somewhat, at the consistency of stew. str8 vegan and the best fucking thing in the world!

first time i made them, it was with celeriac root and leeks (yum!), but they go fine with veggies of almost any sort. today's batch is kinda over the top, with a sauteed mix of onions, carrots, celery, cabbage, mushrooms & tomato filling out the pot. smells incredible.

* garlic, bay leaf, oregano, cumin & chile peppers/powder are key

maybe also add citrus juice for mystery flavor questions. also: nutmeg, cinnamon, a bit of maple syrup. in the absence of cured meat, you can cheat w liquid smoke.

xp that is very, very OTM. All of that. I too never really loved beans until about 3 years ago, when I started making them myself and realized they didn't have to be mealy mushy disgusting flavorless. Black and cannelini are amazing, and of course garbanzo. I don't like kidneys so much bcz they are kinda big and mush. Also, I am bummed bcz I have never had navy and I keep trying to make recipes w/ them but they don't sell them at my grocery store, canned or dried.

empedocles would not eat them

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i use a bit of baking soda in the soak to help soften the beans up.

white bean cassoulet is my most requested dish from Mrs. Shasta, it was one of our first dining in dates, the first time i cooked for her.

plz to share recipe?

yeah, do!

Steve I think you would like this butter beans recipe!!
Butter beans are my legume joint lately.

Also if you guys want I can go dig up my cookbook and share my secret-weapon white beans w/ garlic + sage recipe; it is stunningly flavorful which is o_O considering it only has like four ingredients.

I've never had butter beans!! Maybe I should get on this; I just came across that recipe for sweet + tangy b-beans on one of the veg*swag threads

Those white beans sound fucking superb, please share!
I had a super hard time finding butter beans for sale but Albertson's had them canned (store brand only, weird!). I like how big they are! Not that I am a size queen.

recipe is not vegan... I sometimes substitute a ham hock or sausage in lieu of slab bacon fwiw:

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/thomas-kellers-slow-cooker-cassoulet.html

i'm not either, but you know, i have goals

thanks!

recently contemplated selling the french laundry cookbook due to poverty (irony is funny), but wound up keeping it. proud of this.

Beans are so great if you want to become vegan (that's how I started eating them). They have a heartiness abt them that makes it way OK that what you are eating is not meat/does not have to contain meat.

Here it is. Though I haven't gotten around to it yet, I'd recommend using freshly cooked beans, bcz the canned ones tend to fall apart after lots of stirring. Also, who doesn't love that fresh taste?! Really, it's nuts how good this recipe is.

TUSCAN WHITE BEANS W/ GARLIC + SAGE (from the wonderful V3g4n Pl4n3t cookbook)

2 tbsp extra virg olive oil, plus more for drizzling
3 garlic cloves, minced
10 fresh sage leaves, minced
3 cups cooked cannelini beans, or two 15oz cans (drained and rinsed well)
salt + pepper

1. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium low. Add the garlic and cook, stirring until fragrant, about 30 sec. Add the sage and stir/cook 30 more sec
2. Add the beans, stirring to coat. Simmer over low heat until hot, about 120 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with a little olive oil.

You can use these for:
eating with a spoon
putting on pasta
dipping chips or other things into
lots of other things that I can't think of.

black bean burgers are the best

Those are great too!! Except that a lot of the (vegan) homemade ones are v delicate and fall apart easily. I have found the secret to homemade bean burgers, btw, is incorporating a bit of vital wheat gluten to act as a binder. I have a recipe for one of those, too...

1. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium low. Add the garlic and cook, stirring until fragrant, about 30 sec. Add the sage and stir/cook 30 more sec

the recipe sounds excellent, but i'm highlighting this cuz it's one of the best things to do, ever. good in so many things.

I think this was the thing that really got me into fresh sage. Easily my #1 favorite of the fresh herbs, at this point.

yeah, me too. rosemary's awful nice tho, especially for grilling/broiling.

i think i don't really especially like black eyed beans. obviously i feel like i do, because they have a nice look, a good aesthetic. there's some thing you do to cook them over a long time or something? i feel like if you're just using them like black beans or pinto or something, over rice, then they can't compete. but maybe it's because they don't belong, & they're waiting on the gumbo that makes sense of them.

I think this was the thing that really got me into fresh sage. Easily my #1 favorite of the fresh herbs, at this point.

oh hell yeah. i've been leaning sageward for a while.

Garbanzos (aka chick peas) are ultra classic, because 'Cicero' was actually the Roman orator's nickname and it meant 'garbanzo'. He got the nickname because the tip of his nose was orbicular with a crease and looked like a gabanzo bean. they are also ultra classic because of hummus.

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I think you meant to say:

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hm, on my screen at least that's two delicious portions of beans, but i'm not complaining

the magical fruit

Black beans are def my favorite. An onion, 3 garlic cloves, tbsp cumin, 1/2 tbsp oregano, a 28 oz can of black beans & 14 oz can tomatoes, water to top, salt/pepper to taste, makes a fine couple days of meals.

I can recommend Robin Robertson's Cuban slow cooker Black Bean Soup recipe and this New Orleans Red Beans & Rice recipe to other vegetarians. Both use smoked paprika, which is a nice sub for the smoke flavor of processed meats. Add marmite to the stock/soup if you need more umani.

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