Cooked in the oven in a giant dutch oven ( Read more... )

It's been weeks, maybe a month, since I've made a giant batch o' bean stew ( Read more... )

This week's bean stew is in the oven. It'll be done about 9 or 10pm, so I can have it for breakfast tomorrow. It's black-eyed peas (they are my favorite so far of the beans I have tried) and turkey necks. It's an attempt to recreate "that orange stew ( Read more... )

I am unimpressed with my current batch of bean stew (currently more like soup, but it tends to set up overnight).

I am impressed by my problem solving. Since I have tendinitis, and what is probably arthritis, my hands have a limit to what they can do in any given day and my solution spared my hands a lot of spoonsThe Problem(s): I wanted to roast ( Read more... )

I tried neck bones again last night, with great northern beans. Great Northern beans have more fiber than other beans, so I thought they might be suited to the long cooking time needed by the neck bones. This is a rough recipe that is missing some later additions/alterations ( Read more... )

I cooked this on Tuesday. And miracle of miracles, I took notes as I did it, so this is a reasonably accurate recipe for what I produced. Preparation time about 40 minutes. Cooking time 4 hours.

INGREDIENTS:
2 lbs black beans, pre-soaked (I quick-soaked them ( Read more... )

It took me a week, but I finally made the big batch of bean stew that I mentioned last weekend ( Read more... )