SEVENTY Great Northern Bean recipes here. :)
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/17026/fruits-and-vegetables/beans-and-peas/great-northern-beans/
I’ll grow drying beans again next year. Totally in LOVE with ‘Good Mother Stollard’ bean, but a friend is crazy about ‘Beefy Beans’, so I’m going to research those as well.
White/chicken chili doesn't interest me. I think I probably bought them with baked/bbq beans in mind for the smoker.
20 years ago we went for a drive west on Hwy 5 just to see what was out there. Stopped by a little home cooking restaurant and I had the white beans. They were none of the above typical recipes. They were really good, had no meat, did have tiny diced carrots and maybe something green, also diced but that's all I know.
Since it had no meat, I just did a search for vegetarian while beans and came across Provencal White Beans which I think might be it.
They were not orange at all so she used no tomato based ingredient and there was no cheese and if there were onions, they were diced very small and maybe cooked to the point of rendered but everything else looks like a match.
I see 3-4 lbs of white beans in bags but I'm pretty sure I have a LOT more in Sam's Club sized Folgers containers so I probably have enough for bbq baked/smoked beans and Provencal.
Yeah, just took a peak. One of the bags is navy beans. Then I have 3 of those big Folgers containers full of northern plus two 1 lb bags so maybe 7-8 lbs or more. One bag of kidney beans and probably 4-5 lbs plus several cans of pinto beans, a few lbs of red beans and a Folgers container of black beans. Them crazy preppers. Next time I hit walmart, I need to get a big bag of rice. We're almost out.
I rotated them out a few years back or maybe several. Guess I better try small batches of what's in the containers to make sure they'll soften. Instead of soaking overnight, I'll quick soak method and cook today. I need to run to town this morning so I'll grab a few bags just in case or to restock what I'm rotating out. I've used baking soda with some old black beans before to get them to soften and it worked but I wasn't thrilled with the end results. Better to buy new as cheap as they are. Just looked at conversions and it looks like 1 lb of dried beans = three 15 oz cans of beans. Walmart 32 oz bag of GN beans works out to 38 cents a can equivalent and the cans are $0.92
Of course 40 seeds for $3.50 will grow you a lot of beans even cheaper - https://www.rareseeds.com/bean-good-mother-stallard Here you go, "making me" buy seeds LOL.
Need to hit Ace this morning and get nuts and washers to keep those round grates from sliding/falling. Would be a shame if I got clumsy and the new dutch oven fell. The washers are thin enough to bend on one side to make a pair of them curl around the grates and lock them in place.
Just pulled out the great northern beans and kitchen scale. I have 16 lbs in containers plus 1 lb in bag and 2 lb bag of Navy which will substitute for GN. Bags say best by 2022-2024 so those are fine so I don't need to buy any this morning. Just the spices and dark brown sugar I couldn't get yesterday due to registers going down. And with that, I'm off to town.