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.
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I'm bad: a little clove of garlic and some baby spinach is good too. Fabulous instant dinner or lunch!!
ReplyDeleteYummy! I've just had pinto beans and salad stuffed in a pitta bread for my lunch!
ReplyDeleteThis 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
ReplyDeleteCelia, 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
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely going to give this a go, Celia ...
ReplyDeleteAntonia, 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
ReplyDeleteI'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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