Review: Make beans the star of any dish
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
COOKING WITH BEANSCook Cheap and Easy MealsWith Dried or Canned BeansBy: Rhiana JonesThanks to  Rhiana Jones for the wonderful book on many different uses for beans.Beans are like super healthy and nutritious for you to enjoy. Can be a great protein alternative, used in many ethnic meals. Beans are wonderfull, filled with fiber, protein, complex carbs, vitamins and minerals, and low fat.  My favorite bean, which I wish I could make in every bean dish would be chickpeas or also known as gabanzo beans. They normally use it in hummus, but I actually never had hummus just heard it wasn't that tasty. I dobut It be awful, since I'm coocoo for chickpeas. The taste actually is so yummy, that I wouldn't mind eating them over meat.I love how this book inspires so many ways to use beans, rather then what we typically may do with them. Some suggestions of a typical bean dish is chili, baked beans,  beans and rice, and bunch of simple ones we already know. However, this book will give you so much more ideas on making a tasty dish using beans. Something we wouldn't of thought of to use with beans.here are a few examples:Pork and Bean CakeUsed in TacosIn Lasagnaand a bunch moreAlso what beans will help with is saving you cash at the supermarket. You can option in beans for a meal that you would normally do with meat or half the meat and add beans to fill it out. If you get the ones that are not canned with salt, you will be saving even more. I use to buy kidney beans in the bag, not prepared. Then would take a big plastic container or pot and fill it with water and add the beans in. What you see in the bag is probably a small amount of beans, but be AMAZED. Once they sit overnight and soak up some water they end up filling the container double to tripple then what they started as. Almost like taking a balloon and blowing it up.