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Tag Archives: featured bean
Featured Cooking Bean: Brown Tepary
This year I am on a mission to cook and eat as many different varieties of beans as possible. This is another in a series about my observations about those beans. Imagine there was a bean that was drought tolerant … Continue reading
Featured Cooking Bean: Runner Cannellini
This year I am on a mission to cook and eat as many different varieties of beans as possible. This is another in a series about my observations about those beans. Growing up, the only dried beans I remember eating … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Beans
Tagged beans, dry beans, featured bean, pole beans, Runner Cannellini
5 Comments
Featured Cooking Bean: Good Mother Stallard
This year I am on a mission to cook and eat as many different varieties of beans as possible. This is another in a series about my observations about those beans. Good Mother Stallard is a dry shelling bean that … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Beans
Tagged bean soup, beans, dry beans, featured bean, Good Mother Stallard, pole beans
6 Comments
Featured Cooking Bean: Cherokee Trail of Tears
This year I am on a mission to cook and eat as many different varieties of beans as possible. This is the first in a series about my observations about those beans. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Beans
Tagged bean soup, beans, dry beans, featured bean, pole beans, Trail of Tears
17 Comments
Featured Cooking Bean: Tiger’s Eye
This year I am on a mission to cook and eat as many different varieties of beans as possible. This is the first in a series about my observations about those beans. The yellowish brown Tiger’s Eye Beans are so … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Beans
Tagged beans, bush beans, dry beans, featured bean, refried beans, Tiger's Eye, tostada
17 Comments

