They call beans “the poor man’s meat” because they are full of protein. But beans are not a complete protein. They’re missing some essential amino acids that are readily supplied by animal sources such as meat or eggs or by simple grains. That’s why you so often see beans paired with grains in cultures around […]
Steamed brown bread, a New England tradition, was a treat for us even growing up in the Midwest. We ate it out of a can (I never knew it any other way) and it was always something exotic and mysterious when it arrived on our dinner plate, almost on a par with getting chow mein […]
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Boston baked beans and steamed brown bread spread with Philadelphia cream cheese. Isn’t this a dinner we all grew up with? The memory leaped to mind when I went searching for bean recipes yesterday. It’s high time The Slow Cook gives more attention to legumes, meaning dried beans of one sort or another. Beans are […]
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