Christine Dabney wrote on 02 May 2007 in rec.food.cooking

> On Thu, 03 May 2007 03:04:28 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >I can't cook beans to save my soul...Hello my name is Mr Libido
> >Incognito and I can't cook dried beans. They are always tough...I've
> >tried the overnight soaking...adding baking soda, adding salt, the
> >boil twice method...no acids...standing on my left leg , drinking
> >from the other side of the glass and many other folk lore methods,
> >alas nothing helps.
>
> Alan,
>
> Maybe it isn't you, but the beans?
>
> Where are you buying your beans...are you buying them in a place where
> you can only get bagged beans? Or in a place where you can get beans
> in bulk, and where there is a fast turnover?
>
> I am thinking you are buying old beans..and sometimes they never get
> soft, if that is the case.
>
> Maybe try a different source for your beans?
>
> Christine
>

I'm buying my beans canned....I have given up...I gave this much thought. I
rarely, other than for use in soups, stews and humus, eat beans. I dislike
boston baked beans and pork and beans ...the sweetness makes me shudder in
horror.Some will only eat canned mushrooms others only fresh. So as a
logical extension of my dislike of beans ...I find canned bean meet my
needs mostly. We all have food fetishes and I can live with myself over any
bean issues I have and eat liver to console myself.

So I'm going with 2-14 oz cans of navy beans in my modified bean and bacon
soup. Another soup day tomorrow, as I'm low on homemade soups for work
lunches. Made a paultry 15-3 cup containers of Bean, Cabbage and Sausage
soup today. Tomorrow is bean and Bacon (I'll probably double the recipe)
and the day after is a almond and wild rice soup recipe I got from Damsel,
which is quite excellent. On the weekend I'm thinking maybe Nanners
Tortillia soup or a Veggie,beef barley number...That should hold me for a
month or 3. Then on to Stews and pot pies. I got a loverly chicken spring
veggie pot pie recipe from a new cookbook I want to try...excepting I need
smallish one serving ovenware containers... that I can freeze...thinking
foil jobs except I'd like to microwave to reheat...Can you say I see
corningware or ironstone purchases in my future.