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If you don't like beans, get out.

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Cooking with Dry Beans: Food Science Insights and Strategies from Dr. Guy Crosby | Bean Institute Editor’s Note: Dr. Guy Crosby of America’s Test Kitchen will be speaking with Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND at the 2016 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FN...

here is our classic treatise on “Cooking with Dry Beans: Food Science Insights and Strategies” from Dr. Guy Crosby

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09.12.2024 10:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cooking with Dry Beans: Food Science Insights and Strategies from Dr. Guy Crosby | Bean Institute Editor’s Note: Dr. Guy Crosby of America’s Test Kitchen will be speaking with Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND at the 2016 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FN...

“the secret to good beans is same as the secret to good food of any kind anywhere: immense amounts of fat and salt” - salt yes, fat, no - at least not initially or mandatorily.

09.12.2024 10:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is my favorite bean recipe Happy Thanksgiving!

a few weeks late on this but was very please to see @maxread.info using his audience to evangelize beans. substack.com/home/post/p-...

09.12.2024 09:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kidney/Fava 2024

05.11.2024 09:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Broad Windsor Fava Bean Broad Windsor Fava (Vicia faba) is an English heirloom cool season bean dating back to the 1800s. Plants are fall or winter sown and grow with great vigor to a height of up to five feet, with heavy yi...

and for anyone looking to imbibe, seeds for this English heirloom are available here: www.plantgoodseed.com/products/bro...

22.10.2024 11:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
a screen full of Broad Windsor Fava Bean seeds

a screen full of Broad Windsor Fava Bean seeds

broad windsor fava bean plants in a field

broad windsor fava bean plants in a field

immature broad windsor fava bean pods; green

immature broad windsor fava bean pods; green

quarterly bean profile (formerly bean of the month, née bean of the week): broad windsor fava beans! also called: bell beans, broad beans, faba bean, field-bean, horse bean, horsebean, tick-bean, and Windsor bean. cultivated and consumed up to 11,000 years ago, and domesticated in the Middle East.

22.10.2024 11:44 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2
new mexican appaloosa pole bean

new mexican appaloosa pole bean

tiger’s eye bush bean

tiger’s eye bush bean

calypso wolverine bean yin yang

calypso wolverine bean yin yang

purple fava negreta bean

purple fava negreta bean

we are back with some beans for you; New Mexican Appaloosa Pole Bean, Tiger’s Eye Bush Bean, Calypso / Wolverine, Purple Negreta Fava Bean. coming next week, top 10 cringe bean puns for conversational boomers and some suggestions on how to indoctrinate the youth with bean positivity

07.07.2024 11:35 — 👍 38    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

🤩 (imagine the stars are beans)

11.03.2024 12:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Crimson Flowered Fava Bean

Crimson Flowered Fava Bean

Crimson Flowered Fava Beans dry

Crimson Flowered Fava Beans dry

Crimson Flowered Fava Beans dry

Crimson Flowered Fava Beans dry

Crimson Flowered Fava Beans in flower in a field

Crimson Flowered Fava Beans in flower in a field

bean of the week: crimson flowered fava beans. crimson flowers, enough said. in stock in packet and bulk form at www.plantgoodseed.com/products/cri...

11.03.2024 11:41 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

bean pudding

11.03.2024 11:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe I should page the @thebeaninstitute.bsky.social

20.02.2024 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A couple stacks of bags of various dry beans

A couple stacks of bags of various dry beans

Taking winter bean inventory

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bean of the week! Hyacinth (Lablab purpureus) is a perennial vine that produces striking somewhat flat purple pods reminiscent of snow peas. Edible if boiled well with several changes of the water. Used culinarily in East, Southeast, and South Asia, as well as East Africa. Plants are cold hardy too.

22.12.2023 01:23 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
black midnight fava beans

black midnight fava beans

black midnight fava beans

black midnight fava beans

sowing black midnight fava beans in siskiyou county. enough said.

12.11.2023 01:33 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

pleased to report bean milk and granola in the morning is a very pleasant breakfast!

10.11.2023 01:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eat more beans. Please. Beans are high in protein, efficient to grow, and can even improve soil health. They cost less than conventional or new plant-based meats, and they’re increasingly getting attention among foodies.

an oldie but a goodie - if you're short on time, the headline says it all.

09.11.2023 12:19 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

unlike where it came from 😭

03.11.2023 23:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
shelled immature lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus)

shelled immature lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus)

immature lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) pods

immature lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) pods

shelled lima beans (Phaseolus lunatus)

shelled lima beans (Phaseolus lunatus)

mature Fordhook 242 lima beans

mature Fordhook 242 lima beans

Bean of the Week! Lima Beans (Phaseolus lunatus) also called butter bean, Madagascar bean, etc. are native to central/South America. They have both bush and climbing growth habits (think the ostentatious Christmas lima). great eatin’ when shelled immature (green) raw or dried, mature dried…

03.11.2023 12:28 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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beans and population growth, for better or worse

23.10.2023 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we are working on our bluesky

19.10.2023 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis)

Bean of the week: “Jack beans” (Canavalia ensiformis) - also referred to as sword-bean, coffee bean, wonder-bean, giant stock-bean, horse-bean, horse gram. Very large pods and beans; Edible at certain stages (mostly immature); see more here: plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibr...

17.10.2023 11:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tired of yet another protective circle of salt on All Hallow's Eve? Reduce your sodium content and introduce a protective and delicious protein, beans!

14.10.2023 23:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

this is called the bean institute for a reason

14.10.2023 16:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
red kidney beans

red kidney beans

yukina tatsoi and carmen peppers

yukina tatsoi and carmen peppers

beans and greens (and peppers) before sunrise. out of bay leaves because the contain is 650 miles north so improvised with some thyme.

14.10.2023 11:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Phaseolus vulgaris? More like Phaseolus delicious.

13.10.2023 11:09 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

just beaned

13.10.2023 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

freed to beaned

13.10.2023 01:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When frightened villagers try to tell me "please, please! No more beans!" It's like yup, that's a one way ticket to the bean pit

12.10.2023 02:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ancient Greek Olympians would eat nothing but beans for 13 days before oiling up and grappling each other's naked bodies for the favor of the gods. Are you still too good for beans?

12.10.2023 01:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have been summoned

12.10.2023 01:44 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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