[at-l] Re: beans

[artduck@yahoo.com (Carol Benel)]

Best place I found to buy dry beans is at an Indian
market.  They are called dahl.  Wide variety often
with less cooking time than navy or red beans.
--- Paul Haan <siler@voyager.net> wrote:
> Guess that's my cue to de-lurk again.  First off, if
> your experience is
> anything like mine, you'll get plenty of weird looks
> cooking real beans on
> the AT.  I only ran into one other person on the AT
> in 2000 that
> consistently cooked whole grains.  But whole foods
> are hard to beat
> nutrition-wise and IMO dried beans don't cut it.
> 
> As a previous post mentioned, start soaking
> mid-morning.  I used a Nalgene
> straight jar for soaking.  I would cover the beans
> with water by almost 1
> inch.  I never had to drink the bean water, but
> cooked in it to save the
> vitamins.  I used black turtle beans and adzuki
> beans.  The former work
> better.  Even with the soak, they still took 30+
> minutes to cook... but that
> wasn't a problem with me because I tossed them in
> with whole grain brown
> rice which needs the cook time.
> 
> As for lentils, you might want to try the large
> green variety that a decent
> health food store will sell.  Much better.  Lentils
> and rice was certainly
> the best meal for increasing my stamina the
> following day.
> 
> Save the things tou need to soak for the last days
> before resupply when your
> foodbag has otherwise been lightened.
> 
> Siler
> GA>ME'00
> LT in 18 days!
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