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William Jennings
 
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Default Pinto beans and water

David,

There's a Latin Foods store on San Pedro inside the loop going towards town
on the right side. It's just past the HEB next to a music store. They have
that dried corn and other interesting products. Of particular interest are
the carzuelas from Spain and cheeses.

doc





"David Wright" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:09:11 -0500, "William Jennings"
> > wrote:
>
> >After a little testing and research and not going into all the science;

I've
> >found to my taste soft water makes the best pinto beans. My tap water is
> >hard coming from limestone. The bottled spring water I bought was
> >significantly softer.

>
> I'll try the bottled water this week, doc, for some pinto beans (btw,
> I was 10-11 years old before I knew that "beans" could mean anything
> but pinto ;-). I'll also add some "chicos," which is dried, but not
> processed, sweet corn. Common in New Mexico but I haven't seen it
> anywhere else.
>
> David