Mom receives a box of food once a month and there's usually a bag or two of dried beans. She asked me yesterday if I wanted them as she doesn't bother with soaking beans or anything anymore.
Do I want them? Oh my, yes! My sister brought them over this afternoon. With a request from my BIL for me to please make some baked beans ASAP. So tomorrow, we're having a winter picnic with grilled burgers, pasta salad, and baked beans. And I'm thinking a shoo-fly cake for dessert. And if I had some of Erica's lovely lemons and oranges, I could make orange lemonade to go with!
My sister and BIL were only too happy to be invited.
Anyway, in our pantry closet.....
1-pound bag of pinto beans (yay, pinto beans!)
1-pound bag of navy beans (ham and bean soup anybody?)
1-pound bag of black-eyed peas
1-pound bag of green split peas
1-pound bag of yellow peas
A 2-pound bag of great northern beans are soaking in the fridge now for baked beans tomorrow.
It just so happens that I have a nice ham bone in the freezer, just waiting to be thawed to make a large pot of split pea soup, so the green split peas and the yellow peas will be used quickly.
To me, it's a bonanza! I love cooking with beans!
Do I want them? Oh my, yes! My sister brought them over this afternoon. With a request from my BIL for me to please make some baked beans ASAP. So tomorrow, we're having a winter picnic with grilled burgers, pasta salad, and baked beans. And I'm thinking a shoo-fly cake for dessert. And if I had some of Erica's lovely lemons and oranges, I could make orange lemonade to go with!
Anyway, in our pantry closet.....
1-pound bag of pinto beans (yay, pinto beans!)
1-pound bag of navy beans (ham and bean soup anybody?)
1-pound bag of black-eyed peas
1-pound bag of green split peas
1-pound bag of yellow peas
A 2-pound bag of great northern beans are soaking in the fridge now for baked beans tomorrow.
It just so happens that I have a nice ham bone in the freezer, just waiting to be thawed to make a large pot of split pea soup, so the green split peas and the yellow peas will be used quickly.
To me, it's a bonanza! I love cooking with beans!