Haute Cusine: Beans Galore!

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<p>What are your favorite bean recipes?</p>

<p>I’ve tried to empty my cupboards of dried beans lately and I found some success and fairly tastety meals. Pintos, Black Eyed Peas or Limas were on the stove at our house when I was a kid at least once-a-week. These days I like to experiment with a variety of beans.</p>

<p>Successes:
Navy Beans in chicken stock with onions
Limas and Split Peas with smoked turkey and onion
Black Eyed Peas with pork neck bones
Kidney Bean Chili with diced chicken and chipolte</p>

<p>Failures:
Chick Pea Chili
Miller Beans (a.k.a. Yellow Eye Peas) in tomato sauce and brown sugar</p>

<p>What dried beans do you enjoy? By the way, if you’re going to make jokes about the “tummy music” (as Alton Brown called it), then at least be clever. Hah.</p>

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<p>There are a lot of great Indian recipes for chana dal (chick peas) and dried peas and lentils. I’d look at the cookbooks of Madhur Jaffrey. (One of my faves is a dal curry that includes coconut milk.)</p>

<p>Cassoulet is delicious if you have some pea/great northern beans.</p>

<p>I love black beans. I’m not a fan of kidney beans: usually too tough.</p>

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<p>White beans (cannellini or great northern)
served over toasted day old sliced french bread (add a bit of chicken broth if beans are not “saucy” enough)
drizzle of good E.V.O
and topped with chopped onion, italian parsley, fresh tomato, salt and pepper</p>