Sweet Red Bean Soup

[fitfool]

Reusing the recipe for Sweet Mung Bean Soup for sweet red bean soup instead. I love both sweetened red beans and mung beans as a dessert and snack. I like it cold out of the fridge, really cold mixed in with shaved ice, or warm and soothing heated up. You can adjust how much sugar to add to suit your own tastes. You can buy these dried beans at an

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[fixnwrtr]

I haven't thought of cold sweet bean soup as a snack or a meal, but I'm game. I'll try it after I get moved and set up. Sounds interesting and I'm game to try anything once. It's how I got hooked on squid.

[fitfool]

mmm...Yes I'll try just about anything once or twice. I'll even revisit foods I don't like every few years in case I've started liking them. That's allowed me to take onions, mushrooms, honey mustard, and gherkin pickles off the taboo list. I still don't care much for coffee, beer, or sour pickles. Fried squid. Yummmm.

Still...will you try anything once after you've seen my next post?

[fixnwrtr]

I've eaten ants, earthworms, octopus and a few other things, so I'm pretty sure I'll still try anything once.

[fitfool]

Then yes. You'd be game for Edible Insects, Part2. Where did you try earthworms and ants? How were they prepared? What did you think of them?

[fitfool]

I just scrolled back and realized you answered those already about how they tasted. :)

[fixnwrtr]

I had the earthworms in chocolate chip cookies and they were surprisingly good. The ants were roasted and mostly salty and crunchy.

[fitfool]

Earthworms. I think I'd have to have them hidden in things like cookies to get me to try them. The ants sound good like that.

[fixnwrtr]

It's true what they say. Everything's better with chocolate.

[fitfool]

or bacon. Bacon makes everything taste better.

[fixnwrtr]

Depends on the bacon, but otherwise -- oh, yeah. I did notice your fondness for bacon before this.

[fitfool]

Got any recommendations for particularly good bacon?

[fixnwrtr]

I really like maple cured bacon and I go for the ones without nitrites and nitrates or high levels of sodium. Sugar cured is also good. But if you can't find that, go for thick sliced bacon (thin sliced if making rumaki or dates with cheese so it will cook quickly and not burn the cheese) and add a sprinkling of natural/organic brown or maple sugar while it's cooking. If you want something with a bite, go for thick sliced peppered bacon.

[fitfool]

cool. I've only recently started shopping at Whole Foods and have been looking forward to try the non nitrites/nitrates bacon. It looked like the butcher would even slice the bacon in the case to whatever thickness you wanted. But first we're using up the bacon that we already had in the freezer/fridge. Your suggestions all sound yummy :)