What's for dinner tonight?

[WeatherWoman]

A delicious but bad for you dinner: Lemon Dilly Cod (Fish) and Fries (Chips) with Deep Fried Zuccini and Carrots & Cucumbers with dip

[motorhomebabe]

Corned beef little cabbages and potatoes.

[grammafreddy]

Homemade Corn Chowder and homemade buns. It's a good night for soup. Any night is a good night for soup :D

[grammafreddy]

I need a recipe for 12-Bean Soup. For meat in it I will use Chinese sausage because it is in the freezer and needs using. Any suggestions?

I have the beans already - a bean mix that has lima, pinto, little green split ones and little orange split ones - and others. It came from the Springfield Bulk Foods store.

Do I have to presoak the beans? How long will it take to turn the beans to mush if I don't presoak them?

[greylady]

Got a pressure cooker/canner?

[grammafreddy]

Not a pressure cooker but I have a canner and I have a big crock pot, too. (and a large soup pot)

[Bsuds]

I need a recipe for 12-Bean Soup. For meat in it I will use Chinese sausage because it is in the freezer and needs using. Any suggestions?

I have the beans already - a bean mix that has lima, pinto, little green split ones and little orange split ones - and others. It came from the Springfield Bulk Foods store.

Do I have to presoak the beans? How long will it take to turn the beans to mush if I don't presoak them?

GOOGLE?

[grammafreddy]

Yeah, did that. The recipes that look like my bean mix all say to presoak overnight.

Sumthin tells me I won't be having bean soup for dinner tonight, eh? :D

[Bsuds]

Nope, even if they were all ready soaked you would still need a couple of hours simmering to get the right flavour.

[grammafreddy]

K - thanks. Guess I will presoak tonight and cook tomorrow.

I have an infected molar so need mushy food until I can get into the dentist. Porridge sounds pretty good tonight now :D

[Nom_de_Plume]

I stopped buying canned beans (chick, kidney etc) and moved to dried about a year ago when I noticed they were using disodium EDTA in some brands of my canned beans. Thankfully not my baked beans yet, although I could technically make those too sometimes you just want a quick beans on toast. Anyhoo, I try to avoid extraneous chemicals whenever possible and tend to eat only "real" food.
I started making my own mayo as well when there were more unpronounceable ingredients than pronounceable ones.

[grammafreddy]

I spose you could make baked beans from scratch and freeze them in serving sizes so all you need to do is nuke them when you want a quick meal of beans on toast?

I would be sooooo lost without my freezer. I wish I had bought a much bigger one than the 15 cf I have now.

[oneh2obabe]

Baked beans freeze very well. You can use canning jars (remember to leave at least 1" to 1-1/2" head space for expansion), plastic containers, freezer bags or a vacuum seal. If using the freezer bags or vacuum sealed bags, thaw then simmer until reheated.

[grammafreddy]

Bean Soup :D

Can't get a dentist appointment so I nailed it with the immersion blender ...

Looks like sumthin the cat threw up but it tastes pretty darn good. The Chinese sausage is quite yummy in it.

[jennylives]

My daughter and I cooked together tonight. Panko chicken breasts, baked garden potatoes, steamed cauliflower and carrots with old cheddar cheese sauce.