Comments on: Never Again the Beans

By: Bryian

Bryian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I do belive you can get posole in Athens now. We have had over the past 2 or 3 years an increase in our hispanic residents. Kind of funny to hear it called “Ah-hens”
Check the New Market, they have all sorts of cool stuff. We will have to make a trip there some time after your settled.

By: Barbara Fisher

Barbara Fisher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, when the five pounds of posole I bought in Columbus is finally cooked and eaten, it will be good to know that I can replentish my hoard of it directly in Athens.

Yes, we will have to go on an excusion to the New Market. I see it has expanded since my last visit.

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

LMAO!
Sounds a little like me and rice! Last count I had 13 different types. eep.
I recently bought some rather beautiful looking dried beans from Waitrose (I’m a sucker for pretty foodstuffs) so I look forward to reading about your adventures.
- Christina

By: ejm

ejm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

But one can NEVER have enough dried beans in the house! What??? no puy lentils? no blackeyed peas?? no fava beans??? ;^)

Of course I can say that because I have vowed that we will NEVER move.

-Elizabeth

By: Barbara Fisher

Barbara Fisher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The green lentils are puy lentils. So, yes, some of those.

No black-eyed peas. I like them now, but in childhood I never liked the way they smelled, so I didn't eat them unless I was forced to. But I think because of that childhood aversion, I have never gone about cooking them now.

As for fava beans: absolutely not. Peeling those godawful bastards is a pain and a trial. If I can get them fresh, they are allright, but dried--soaking and peeling them was a chore I did one too many times in culinary school, and I never liked the way they tasted afterwards enough to justify the endless peeling and soaking and attendant nonsense.

Of course, the fact that we never cooked them in small quantities meant that we peeled them by the ten pounds or so, which is an endless, painful and thankless task, so maybe only a small pot of them wouldn't be so bad.