A Commonplace Book

Category: beans...

  • grinding your own coffee beans
  • guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar
  • a bean being a seed or pod of certain legumes that grow as erect bushes or climbing plants
  • bean colors running the gamut from white through green, yellow, tan, pink, red, brown, purple, to black
  • the bean being one of the most ancient of human foods, a staple over 12,000 years ago -- and one of the most versatile
  • the earliest sprouts to the tender young pods to the mature seeds
  • a beanfest
  • jumping beans
  • refried beans, a translation of Spanish frijoles refritos -- but refritos actually means well-fried not refried
  • Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. (Aesop)
  • beans having lots of protein
  • cooking dried beans entails first placing in a bowl, covering with water and letting them "rest" for at least 8 hours - or putting in a pot with water covering by at least one inch and boiling two minutes, then covering and letting "rest" one hour

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