Stocking up on beans?

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Stocking up on beans? Here's a website for Frugal Living, complete with 272 bean recipes, and other helpful hints.

http://frugalliving.miningco.com/

Oh yeah, you might want to stock up on Beano, too!

-- Zoe (a@a.a), January 12, 1999

Answers

Zoe:

It's that darn frames things again. Here's the full link directly to the beans page. Thanks much for the pointer. Good info.

htt p://soar.Berkeley.EDU/recipes/beans-grains/indexall.html



-- Arnie Rimmer (arnie_rimmer@usa.net), January 12, 1999.


To Zoe and to Arnie Rimmer;

Thanks for the link(s). And for the beano tip.

S.O.B.

-- sweetolebob (La) (buffgun@hotmail.com), January 12, 1999.


Don't stock up on Bean-o, here's a fool-proof method to cook beans with no gas after affect. (1) Wash and rinse beans in cold water and discard rocks and discolored beans. (2) With just enough cold water to cover beans boil over high heat for 5 minutes. Put lid ajar and turn heat off (leave beans on burner). Let sit for at least 6 hours. Do not drain water. Bring beans to a boil and simmer over low heat (covered) for 1 hour or until tender. You can add hamhocks, SPAM, onions, (whatever), 30 minutes before cooking time is done.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), January 12, 1999.

Two tips from a vegetarian who eats a lot of bean products. First, emulate Mexicans--add epazote to the beans to ameliorate their anti-social effects. (Try saying that after sampling the product of your new solar distillery.) Easily-grown herb seed can be obtained from Richter's (superb culinary and medicinal herb source, educational catalogue - www.richters.com, Canadian, very friendly, no problems ordering from US). Second, and very important: don't add salt until the beans have softened, otherwise cooking time is lengthened and the beans will not be as tender. TVP bacon bits can add flavor.

-- anon (anon@spamproblems.com), January 13, 1999.

We invite you to stock up on beans here, and corn too :-)

Pleasant Hill Grain

We also have about a dozen Country Living mills for late-January, early-February shipment... as well as a lot of Family Living mills.

-- Gary Hansen (zz@hamilton.net), January 13, 1999.



Gary, Went to your website but couldn't find any info on the grain mill. Could you post the price for us? Thanks.

-- Lulubelle (hello@abc.com), January 14, 1999.

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