At first, I was experimenting with
cooking different beans and grains.
Not exact matches
A good breakfast means
different things in
different countries: miso soup and rice in Japan;
cooked beans in Egypt; bacon and eggs in the U.S. — or cold cereal with skim milk.
Any time you
cook beans,
cook enough for three
different meals, three
different recipes.
Crock - pot
cooked garbanzo
beans and canned garbanzos are like two completely
different beans with completely
different textures.
Over the decades, Crock - Pot, the original slow
cooker brand, has evolved from a single
bean cooker into a diverse and extensive line of slow
cookers and accessories that make meals and entertaining smarter, easier, and more convenient for the many
different styles of
cooking today.
If
cooking both mung
beans and lentils,
cook them separately, as they have
different cooking times.
Adzuki
beans are a small red
bean, sweet and nutty in flavor, but they are
different from red kidney
beans or any other red
beans used in western style
cooking.
Nazima from Franglais Kitchen blogged as well about how to
cook one ingredient three ways, which is great when you want to
cook different meals for the family from the same set of ingredients and Helen from Fuss Free Flavours posted about fudgey wudgey vegan gluten free black
beans brownies, which sounds like another very inspirational children recipe!
When I lived in the south of France I learned about Cassoulet, a rich, slow -
cooked white
bean stew made with
different meats, like pork sausages, pork, goose, duck and mutton).
And you are so right, I've already batch
cooked three
different types of
beans this week and am in love.
Make a soup, roast two sheet pans with
different vegetables,
cook a pot of
beans, make oatmeal or overnight oats, wash and dry salad greens, and prep a hardy grain to mix and match for meals throughout the week.
In the weekends when we had more time we'd
cook eggs, but poached eggs on toast every single weekend can also get a bit monotonous so I started thinking of
different ways we could have eggs such as blueberry coconut pancakes, maca cacao hotcakes, or baked eggs with spinach and
beans!
Three batches of
different beans are already
cooked + stocked in my fridge and freezer and I'm feeling so stoked about it — yay!
It is a delicious way to help your family have a little
different twist on the traditional form of
cooked green
beans.
While I also don't mix
different batches of
beans, since they may
cook at
different lengths of time, all my white
beans are
different.
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beans by Fritos.
Some Notes: You can of course use fresh -
cooked beans here, but with three
different kinds it might get a bit daunting.
Bonus Observation: Most of my
beans looked pretty similar to their canned equivalents, but I was surprised to see how
different my home -
cooked red kidney
beans were from the canned.
You can take a look at the following link to learn all about garbanzo
beans and
different cooking methods.
When I lived in the south of France I learned about Cassoulet, a rich, slow -
cooked white
bean stew made with
different meats, like pork sausages, pork, goose, duck and mutton).
Here is an easy recipe that works well, especially if you
cook a lot of
beans every week and use them in
different ways.
If you purchase pinto
beans at
different times, store them separately; they may feature varying stages of dryness and therefore will require
different cooking times.
Legumes like garbanzo
beans are
different than vegetables, however, since they require a long time to
cook whether they are canned or
cooked by you at home from the dry version.