Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Calling All Bean Enthusiasts!


You heard me right. I'm preparing an Enrichment class on how to use the 75-100 lbs. of dry beans in your storage room. I readily welcome any and all suggestions and am awaiting your responses.
By the way, the picture has nothing to do with beans, it is Apple Pork & Sweet Potatoes in my crock pot and it looked so pretty I just had to take a picture.

3 comments:

Heather said...

I actually don't eat beans as much as I should. I have a few in storage, but mostly I buy the canned during case lot sales. But I did look on the internet and thought this website http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=whfkitqa&dbid=2

or

http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/1808/112.htm

was helpful.

I personally liked this one best it is also an acrabat reader one but it gives you three recipes to try and is gives you all the healthy information from mypyramid.

http://iowa.uwex.edu/wnep/documents/Beans.pdf

For your presentation I would add as many good recipes as you can. If someone gave me some good looking recipes on how to use my beans up, I would try them for sure.

Lynnell Fulkerson said...

What about blenderizing dry beans and making a powder. This could thicken gravy or stew or soup and would certainly cook faster than whole dried beans.

Laurel said...

Yeah. I use bean flour in most all things as a thickener (south beach-no white flour). I grind it in my wheat grinder. It gives a good flavor, too.