Recent content by Euralenna

Here is a good site dealing with cooking dry beans with hard water. I have been doing some web surfing on this subject because it came up in a previous thread and maybe this link will help some of you with hard water. http://missvickie.com/howto/beans/bakingsoda.htm I started a new thread...

I think old beans might be problematic too, but in my case, I have bought new beans at least 6 times, and at first I thought it might have been old beans, so I bought them at different places. What are the odds that in 6 times at at least 5 different stores ( in two states) that I got old...

I think I'll make some cornbread to go with them. I just did a taste test and they are flavoring up nicely....and they are getting soft. As far as the hard water goes, I've been making beans for alot of years and I've lived in alot of places/states. I've never had a problem cooking beans...

I usually make mine with some kind of bean ( great northern) with bacon slices, onion, and some cumin. The past three years I haven't had any luck making beans because I found out that hard water/rust will not cook beans right. Now that we have Culligan, I thought I'd try again. So, last...

I'm new here, but thought I'd join in. Tonight for dinner I am making yaki mando and some chicken fried rice. I'll also have some white rice and some dried seaweed for the kids because they love it that way. My kids are old enough to help me make the yaki mando's, so we get quite an assembly...

I found this site 2 days ago and I have read a zillion posts already! I taught myself to cook early on, and while I'm great at preparing most things, some things I'm not so great at. I'm hoping to get some great tips and advice here and learn some new recipes along the way. Nice to meet you...