I know a lot of people cook beans every day for most of their lives. But for me it was new. So, things I learned: a standard 15oz can of beans contains 1.75 cups of beans canned and cooked-from-dry beans are interchangeable in most recipes 1 cup of dried beans becomes 3 cups of cookedContinue reading “Things I learned cooking beans for a year”
Author Archives: Heather Piwowar
These are a few of our favourite beans
As mentioned in the previous post, I cooked 301 distinct bean recipes during 2021, and my family rated each of them out of five. There were 113 fives — and here they are 🙂 Sorry this format isn’t better — was the best I could do in a short time. When you click on theContinue reading “These are a few of our favourite beans”
Update: A Year of Beans
So, I didn’t keep up this blog. Oh shocker? 🙂 Work kinda got in the way (we shipped it though! earlier this week! see OpenAlex if you are curious 🙂 ) BUT I did keep gathering bean recipes, and kept cooking beans. I cooked a total 301 bean recipes in 2021. !!! I also keptContinue reading “Update: A Year of Beans”
Greek Chickpea soup recipe (Revithia)
(image credit) It is snowing outside, which made it a great day for this soup. It was fantastic. I made it with chickpeas I’d cooked in the pressure cooker — 4 cups cooked, added a bit of the cooking water to a pot with the onion that I’d fried a bit, a bit more water,Continue reading “Greek Chickpea soup recipe (Revithia)”
Vegan Meringue (Airy and Perfect!)
(image credit) My 14-year-old daughter made these meringue cookies with our hand mixer, and we can’t stop eating them. She said were really easy to make, and is planning to make them again 🙂
Healing Lemongrass Chickpea Thai Green Curry
(image credit) I really liked this Thai-inspired curry and would want to make it again but my other eaters were a little less enthusiastic — they liked it but they weren’t blown away. We did all think the chickpeas went really well with the other flavors. I’d never cooked with lemongrass before, and this stumpedContinue reading “Healing Lemongrass Chickpea Thai Green Curry”
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
(image credit) You have to admit this is a good-looking cookie. Alas I the flavour wasn’t great, I think the peanut butter was distracting. Mixing the melted chocolate into smashed chickpeas worked pretty well though, so maybe I could add some butter instead of the peanut butter? Does feel like it has promise. I amContinue reading “Double Chocolate Chip Cookies”
Chickpea Salad With Lemon, Parmesan, and Fresh Herbs
(image credit) In contrast to two other fantastic salads this week (one, two), this one was disappointing. Was it because I’d used canned chickpeas instead of dry ones that I’d lovingly cooked in my pressure cooker? (4 cups water + 1.5 tsp salt for every cup of chickpeas, 61 minutes on high then natural release)Continue reading “Chickpea Salad With Lemon, Parmesan, and Fresh Herbs”
Pasta e Ceci (Italian Chickpea Soup)
(image credit) John made a Pasta e Ceci that was more of a soup and included greens and basil. It was good, but didn’t have the magic of the version we’d made a week ago.
Orange Spice Garbanzo Cake
(image credit the author, CC0) Made this spice cake. It was fantastic. There was a package of edible flowers for sale in my grocery store so I bought them for decoration and it was lovely. The cake was a little too flat, partly because I used a 8×11 pan instead of the recommended 8×8. IContinue reading “Orange Spice Garbanzo Cake”