Veganish cooking for non vegans #41 Puerto Rican pink beans

Did you use regular old re kidney beans? (4.00 / 1)

Or is there another type of red bean?

This is a new sofrito recipe to me. I've always made it w/onion, garlic, celery and sometimes carrots. Never added tomato or left herbs. hmmmmm. Interesting.

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by: caseyOR @ Sat Sep 24, 2011 at 21:01:13 PM UTC

used the regular ole pink beans (4.00 / 1)

that most super markets carry for under 2.00 See Below I buy chick peas and black beans dry in bulk from my coop but they don't carry pink beans

http://www.foodservicedirect.c...

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by: LeeN @ Sat Sep 24, 2011 at 23:09:23 PM UTC

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I edited the (4.00 / 1)

diary. I realized I had called the recipe Pink Beans and used red beans in the recipe!

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by: LeeN @ Sun Sep 25, 2011 at 10:23:47 AM UTC

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That sounds really good! (4.00 / 1)

I'm making a big pot of beans tomorrow. Supposed to be raining, and that's all the excuse I need to make a big ole pot 'o beans!

Beans and rice, beans and taters, beans and braising greens! Beans are good with everything. Well, except maybe ice cream.

;-)

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Sun Sep 25, 2011 at 03:49:20 AM UTC

Ahem... (0.00 / 0)

Vanilla?

What?!   They're called beans, that's enough for me!

;)

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Sun Sep 25, 2011 at 04:22:48 AM UTC

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traditional Puerto Rican beans (4.00 / 1)

are cooked with ham ( you cook the beans with the ham)Aside from liquid smoke which has shitty ingredients,the only veggie ingredient I could think of to add a smoky flavor would be some kind of pepper like Chipotles.

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by: LeeN @ Sun Sep 25, 2011 at 10:22:27 AM UTC

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I wonder if you could use smoked nuts as a substitute for ham (4.00 / 1)

You could either chop the nuts or your could grind them into a paste after smoking them.

I was going to use Blue Diamond Smoke House almonds as a pine nut substitute in some microgreens pesto I was going to make. But the almonds never made it as far as the blender. Neither did the micros, I wound up using them as a salad.

But the principle is sound. ;-)

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Mon Sep 26, 2011 at 06:26:49 AM UTC

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