Access Today Bean By Bean: A Cookbook: More Than 175 Recipes For Fresh Beans, Dried Beans, Cool Beans, Hot Beans, Savory Beans, Even Sweet Beans! Devised By Crescent Dragonwagon Compiled As EText

by Bean is the first cookbook that Ive actually read through, I stayed up with this one, couldnt put it down, Perhaps it was Dragonwagons heartwarming voice and the lore she allows to simmer with each recipe, I learned how to grow beans, soak beans properly, boil beans properly, and eat beans in just about every way, I even found myself cooking beans way past midnight a few nights, “experimenting” with a recipe or technique, Now Im a beanwoman. I buy em up bulk and cook something beany each and every week, Weve gone all inIndian dishes like mjeddrah, blackeyed peas and greens, baked beans, and my goto for LDs meals at work: classic red beans and rice.
And I cant tell you how excited I am to make chili and cornbread this fall, sans the cans! Theres something soulsatisfying about a pot of beans.
Full review here: sitelink me/pCCy Meh, You want a bean book, pick up Rancho Gordo's cookbook "Heirloom Beans",
There were a handful of unique recipes in here out of the touted, but mostly quite underwhelming,
And no pictures at all, The cover art is fantastic, but quite misleading re: the look of the contents, I've never actually read a cookbook before, but what started as skimming this to familiarize myself with the recipes turned into reading it covertocover, and seriously, it was a pageturner.
I haven't had the opportunity to try any of the recipes yet, but they look great, and I really appreciate the author's laissezfaire approach to recipewriting and her respect of the variety of dietary decisions people make meatist, vegetarian, vegan, etc.
. Her writing is personal, friendly, and VERY enjoyable, and I'm looking forward to cooking my way through this book and especially to enjoying the results.
I have seen other reviews of this book, and my curiosity was peaked, My family doesn't eat lot of beans, but I would like to incorporate more of them into our diet, I like black beans, refried beans, kidney beans, white beans myself,

This is a comprehensive book about beans, The author starts with Bean Basics, discussing the many variety of beans and the basic cooking methods for each type: what to look for in a good green bean, shell beans and how to cook them, soaking beans whatever you need to know about beans is covered here, no more need to fear them.


The ten chapters cover such topics like Hummus amp Starters, with such recipes as GotchaHotcha SweetSmoky Cocktail Peanuts, Hillbilly Hummus made with peanut butter! and Greektown Dip from Chicago's Greektown.


Soulful Simmer Soups is a great chapter that covers the world of beans literally, There are Middle Eastern Bean Soups Spicy SyrianStyle Lentil Soup, African Bean Soups Nigerian SeedThickened Beef amp Shrimp Soup Stew, Asian Bean Soups Thai Hot amp Sour Soups, Indian Bean Soups Sambar, European Hungarian Green Bean Soup, and the Americas Day after Thanksgiving Turkey, Wild Rice amp Rattlesnake Bean Soup.


Of course there are many chili recipes, curry recipes and a chapter on skillets and stir fries that contains an interesting vegetable hash recipe I want to try.
The last chapter has desserts, with Julie's Peanut Butter Cup Brownies that looks good and I never would have thought I'd find in a bean cookbook!

I like that each recipe has symbols next to it that states whether it is compatible for vegans, vegetarians, glutenfree diets or has meat in it.
That makes it easy for anyone with dietary restrictions or preferences to quickly see if the recipe is for them,

The only negative I have is that there are no photos of recipes in the book, but it is a substantial book, and I guess that photos would add to the heft of the book.


If you like beans or would like to add more beans to your diet, this is the cookbook to pick up, I can't imagine that there is any information about beans that I would like to know that is not in this comprehensive,recipe book.

If you enjoy reading cookbooks, this one is a great read, Filled with bean history, amusing anecdotes, and clever turns of phrase, this book is an almost poetic ode to the lowly, but remarkable bean.
And more importantly perhaps, the recipes themselves look interesting and very doable for the most part, Having made a couple of the recipes already the "Ragout of shiitake mushrooms, butter beans, amp Southern greens" was scrumptious I look forward to enjoying many more of them in future.
Haven't tried the recipes yet, so I can't give it a star rating, but they sound good! Writing is very pleasant to read, friendly but not cloying.
Borrowed from the library, this has gone on my Amazon wish list, There a number of dishes I would make and could become standards,
The layout of recipes is a little bothersome but I can't put my finger on way, I think I would like the table of contents to have clearer sub sections or a list of the recipes, or something, Briefly and this is probably due a revisitation and elaboration later on, I adore this book, and it has made me very enthusiastic about beans.
It does not have pictures of the dishes, but I didn't find this a deterrent, I do think how well you like this cookbook will depend on your personal tastes, although it's entertaining to read,of the recipes intrigue me personally, but, for instance, Ms, Dragonwagon is clearly far fonder of olives than I,
I've made a dozen or so of the recipes thus fardahl, panch dahl, navy bean pie, fava bean soup alla romana, three sisters salad, a variation on the oldfashioned Baked Beans, Boston Brown Bread, one of the tofu marinades, beans greens and pasta, neotraditional falafels, "Greekstyle" green beans, tanzanian blackeyed pea and coconut soup w/ bananas and liked pretty much all of them, except maybe the brown bread.
The beans, greens, and pasta, in some variations moreso than others I like kale and beans and pasta a polenta/blackeyed pea/mustard greens variation didn't go over as well and the Greek style greenbeans although I can hardly get enough tomato.
. . plus I like to add a potato that I've precooked with the beans are indeed worthy of the praise heaped on them,
As others have noted, there are perhaps a lot of recipes that include green beans, but as I am not terribly fond of tofu thus far and rarely have it on hand, I sometimes get a bit disappointed when a recipe includes only tofu and no other forms of beans.
There are also several recipes for chickpea flour/besan, and two primary recipes which don't exactly include legumes, one for bean shaped Italian cookies, and one for king caketo which is added a single bean so that the person who gets that slice receives especially good luck or something.
The other nonbean recipes are several complementary breads and some condiments closely associated with recipes, There's one recipe which you'd think didn't have beans in it if you weren't well versed in traditional Japanese soy products, peanutbutter brownie points if you figure out which I'm talking about She does include peanuts in the legumes the book covers, although except in the dessert chapter they don't make a lot of appearances without more typical beans being included.

N. B. One error I've noticed in both my and the library's copy is that numerous references to the Fauxjoada which I have not made refer to various incorrect page numbers.
It is actually on page, Has good bean recipes Like most reviewers, this book appealed to me because Im a Southerner, Beans tend to be available in every or, at least, every other meal, I make a mean pot of bean soup and soup beans and cornbread, etc, Ive been slowly cutting off meat and since beans are so loaded with various proteins this renewed interest, This was actually a super informative, fun and interactive cookbook, Not only does she provide recipes but she gives histories, lore, folklore, games, quotes, everything, Ill admit to skipping over some beans but overall I really enjoyed learning more about each species of bean! I've committed to trying several more of the recipes as the ones I've already

tried have been so very easy, affordable and more importantly, fabulous!.