Yummy! I've just had pinto beans and salad stuffed in a pitta bread for my lunch!
This morning I cooked a huge cauldron of pinto beans after soaking them overnight. The idea is to freeze them in one-meal portions and use them instead of buying tins from the supermarket.
Tanna - fabulous, I'll put both those in next time
Celia, what a good idea ... only there's often no space in my tiny freezer, and I tend to forget things once they're in there ... do you unfreeze them before using? Or can you just bung them in frozen??
This is a new venture - it's because I'm buying more stuff from the Daily Bread Co-op in Cambridge and growing my own beans for drying too, and as we're using more beans it seems a better way than buying tinned ones.
I'll take a bag out of the freezer at breakfast time for adding to a casserole or whatever in the evening. I hadn't thought of adding them frozen - worth a try maybe.
I have to confess that I resorted to the Heinz variety on toast for lunch today. Is one of my little guilty pleasures. I really should try a 'proper' version like this - they look delicious.
Antonia, I LOVE that so many of us have been eating beans for lunch ... something along these lines makes a quick and easy change from the usual, delicious with a little fresh veg in it
Mm, Joanna, I love this, and so right you are about chastising the can of pumpkin! (I'm not against cans for legume or tomato.) And hooray for easy kitchen work.
We live in the countryside near Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire. This blog describes the food I make for our family: I'm not an expert, but I do cook from scratch every day. It's partly a health thing (less salt and sugar, better quality ingredients), partly because I prefer to buy food as locally as possible (great butcher nearby, a lovely Italian deli, I belong to a food co-op, a weekly vegetable box, flour from local mills). I try not to use supermarkets much, but don't always succeed. Each year, I grow a little more of our food, mainly herbs and tomatoes; I'm far too idle to grow maincrop potatoes, but this year we're growing salads and many more vegetables. We keep hens; I plan to keep bees, which would make me a third generation beekeeper. I bake all our own bread, although my children would prefer to be allowed to eat sliced white in peace.
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I'm bad: a little clove of garlic and some baby spinach is good too. Fabulous instant dinner or lunch!!
Yummy! I've just had pinto beans and salad stuffed in a pitta bread for my lunch!
This morning I cooked a huge cauldron of pinto beans after soaking them overnight. The idea is to freeze them in one-meal portions and use them instead of buying tins from the supermarket.
Celia
Tanna - fabulous, I'll put both those in next time
Celia, what a good idea ... only there's often no space in my tiny freezer, and I tend to forget things once they're in there ... do you unfreeze them before using? Or can you just bung them in frozen??
Joanna
Hi joanna
This is a new venture - it's because I'm buying more stuff from the Daily Bread Co-op in Cambridge and growing my own beans for drying too, and as we're using more beans it seems a better way than buying tinned ones.
I'll take a bag out of the freezer at breakfast time for adding to a casserole or whatever in the evening. I hadn't thought of adding them frozen - worth a try maybe.
C
I have to confess that I resorted to the Heinz variety on toast for lunch today. Is one of my little guilty pleasures. I really should try a 'proper' version like this - they look delicious.
I'm definitely going to give this a go, Celia ...
Antonia, I LOVE that so many of us have been eating beans for lunch ... something along these lines makes a quick and easy change from the usual, delicious with a little fresh veg in it
Joanna
Hi Joanna
I've done my own beans on toast before - not quite the same as the commercial stuff no matter how hard I try!
Cheers
David
Mm, Joanna, I love this, and so right you are about chastising the can of pumpkin! (I'm not against cans for legume or tomato.) And hooray for easy kitchen work.
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