How To Cook Legumes

But that may be okay for birds, many of which have special ways to digest seeds; the question is whether it's any good for us. The sunflower "shell" is thegreen stuff of an avocado, but dried into a hard outer "hull."both still enclosed within the hard...

Try growing beans this season. Cook them like you would green beans, or use them in stir fries. Take your pick; there are thousands of varieties.Most bush beans or climbers can be direct sown when the soil warms.

Check with local feed stores, co-ops orfor mail orders. .--A dense stand of cover crops can suppress weeds by soil shading. By having the soil held in place by cover crops during the fall, winter, and early spring, loss of soil from erosion is greatly...

This oil is then refined in order to make it fit for human consumption. [1]Not to waste any part of the bean, the flakes that remain after the oil is extracted are ground into soy meal, which is used as animal feed.

An indeterminate plant will keep growing and setting new fruits for the entire growing season. Flat-podded snow peas should be picked as soon as the pods reach edible size before the peas develop inside.

I figured if I was heating up the oven anyway, I might as well use that heat to increase the layer of seasoning on my pot! I did find that higher temperatures gave a harder, blacker coating than my first attempt, at 350Now your pan is seasoned and ready...

What gardener has not heard over and over, "NPK, NPK, NPK" or, "fertilize, fertilize, fertilize"? It's true we need to address those things, but do we really understand ALL the ramifications, the How's and Why's?

Here at Dave's Garden we have a very active cooking community. Eddyville sports a population of almost 2500 residents, so a large restaurant with high overhead and lots of staff did not make much sense.

The tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day is one for which most Southerners need no encouragement. I usually prepare them just as Mother did. A half-cup serving counts as one ounce of lean meat in the Food Guide Pyramid.To this day, black-eyed...

When searching the Garden Watchdog for, a convenient list comes up with twenty suppliers. You can also use a burn down herbicide but I enjoy the natural approach. It is a good idea to keep your crop watered and feed now and again with a nitrogen based...

Teas are also made with the leaves, which contain less concentrated amounts of abrin, to treat fevers, coughs and colds.I was concerned, as I did my research, to find some sources online selling the seeds for these plants, with no note of their extreme...

Depending on storage temperature, the ginger beer will be ready in 5 to 10 days. We've been introduced to common hinger & shown how to grow it. When no sugar is visible, the beer is ready.The original 19th century ginger ale eventually became known as...

A nutrition analysis based on data provided by the USDA nutrient database shows 4 tablespoons of fresh basil (10.6g) to contain the following:Dietary Fiber: 0.2g (1%DV), Calcium: 18mg (2%DV), Iron: .34mg (2%DV), Magnesium: 6mg (2%DV), Potassium: 32mg...

With a huge plant like this, I have learned to be very creative when it comes to using rosemary. I sell plants, make bath products and cook with it as well. Rosemary flowers can be used in salads or as a garnish.As useful as rosemary is, I think one of...

Start out with small amounts, you can always add more, but if you add too much it will taste like perfume! Lavender is much stronger dried so be sure to use 1/2 the amount if the recipe calls for fresh and you only have dried.

And that is living high on grits, tomato gravy and cathead biscuits. Not only because it is 'good eating', but also because it is economical to prepare. Place remaining bacon on a serving platter for the breakfast table.

In all my years I have only ever taken one bite of beets, pickled, I think they were. The grits were used to make a traditional hominy soup. Cook uncovered for 8 or 10 minutes till crisp/tender, then drain and rinse in cold water.In serving bowl, combine...

Stir well to dislodge any bacon bits.Pour onto salad just before serving, while mixture is warm.Stuff clean peppers into sterilized bottles or jars.Then, bring enough white vinegar to cover the peppers to a boil.

Cut stems when plants are dry and hang them upside down in a warm, airy location. Stevia is an herb that has been much talked about in recent years. After they are dry, strip the leaves from the branches and store them in clean containers.

This dish has regional variations, and almost every cook has a personal blend of spices. Remove the meat, add the spice paste you made with the cilantro along with about a cup of plain yogurt.

Now, I could get all technical with the proper botanical names for all these different parts of the coconut, but that has been done already, and if you are interested, you can find all that out the "Plant Files".

And letting the leaves get larger means you'll have that much more fresh basil to enjoy.Pinching to control flowering is also useful if you plan toasil often comes true for me from saved seeds regardless, butcan happen if you're growing more than one...

Maybe it's time you gave sherry a try. So sherry is fermented grape juice that is fortified with more fermented grape juice (like brandy). Grapes and wine were still produced to make medicine, vinegar, cosmetics, perfume, and raisins.

The pods are popped open, and the little round peas removed from the pod. I like the humor of an anonymous poet, who wrote:In the garden, peas are a cool-season crop. I much preferred them raw to cooked, and after experiencing fresh, sweet, juicy raw...

Even after sugar became part of the European diet, it was still an expensive colonial export, so candied fruit was an expensive treat. The original purpose was to preserve the fruit, which was important before fresh fruit was readily available year round.

When cooking, the outer leaves and thick stalks are removed, leaving only the florets.If you want to minimize the typical cabbage cooking odor, retain the vegetable's crisp texture, and reduce nutrient loss, cook the cauliflower for only a short time.Abandon...

Oats come in many forms: rolled (the oats are steamed, rolled, re-steamed, then roasted), steel-cut, also known as coarse-cut, pinhead, or Irish oats (whole grain cut into two or three pieces by steel), quick cooking (whole grain cut into small pieces...