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I love beans. I am one of those folks who thinks we could save the world and end starvation with beans.
In these cold winter months, few things are as good as bean stews including chili made thick with beans.
A one dollar pound of beans will make a gallon of stew. Add a can of corn or tomatoes, some carrots, Celery, some meat or sausages or hot dogs. Put up a pan of cornbread or noodles or rice and you have a delicious satisfying meal for a hungry group of four or five adults for about five dollars: around a dollar per person (and have left-overs as well)
If you employ the use of a pressure cooker, you can cook dry beans into a delicious stew in less than thirty minutes - saving time and fuel.
Of course, simple boiled bean stew can get pretty mundane. Even chile stew can get tiresome after awhile.
A nice variety changer is to add some of the wide variety of meat marinates to flavor your bean stews.
I recently found that the Weber brand has a fun variety of marinates that work well and cost under a dollar per package. One package is enough to flavor over a gallon of bean stew. Some flavors include Chipotle, black peppercorn, Southern Whiskey, Mesquite, White Wine and Herb Tomato Garlic Pesto. They also have a line of marinates that you add fruit juice such as orange juice.
Of course, there are many brands of marinates besides Weber and the variety avaialable today at a good grocer is exciting.
In these cold winter months, few things are as good as bean stews including chili made thick with beans.
A one dollar pound of beans will make a gallon of stew. Add a can of corn or tomatoes, some carrots, Celery, some meat or sausages or hot dogs. Put up a pan of cornbread or noodles or rice and you have a delicious satisfying meal for a hungry group of four or five adults for about five dollars: around a dollar per person (and have left-overs as well)
If you employ the use of a pressure cooker, you can cook dry beans into a delicious stew in less than thirty minutes - saving time and fuel.
Of course, simple boiled bean stew can get pretty mundane. Even chile stew can get tiresome after awhile.
A nice variety changer is to add some of the wide variety of meat marinates to flavor your bean stews.
I recently found that the Weber brand has a fun variety of marinates that work well and cost under a dollar per package. One package is enough to flavor over a gallon of bean stew. Some flavors include Chipotle, black peppercorn, Southern Whiskey, Mesquite, White Wine and Herb Tomato Garlic Pesto. They also have a line of marinates that you add fruit juice such as orange juice.
Of course, there are many brands of marinates besides Weber and the variety avaialable today at a good grocer is exciting.
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