BEAN YEAR

Beanyear.com – orders close and shipping begins early May BEAN YEAR BOX 3 -Split green peas  -Fried green peas -Pigeon Peas – prepared as Toor Dal -Skinned Split Fava  -Roasted Fava -Cured Lupin – Lupini

Licorice, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Lets start with the heavy hitter, the root chewers favorite gnarled digestif.  It is odd where licorice turns up and often the candy and the plant are totally unrelated. I love black licorice. There’s a local sea salt company that makes excellent black licorice candy … that uses anise extract. My brother lives in Norway and recently…

I worked as a major importer of herbs and spices for many years. My back ground in botany is how I got in to obscure ingredient sourcing. I really enjoyed the work, but I always had a nagging feeling that our relationship with these plants was too shallow. Too focused on individual chemicals and a…

Box 3: split green peas, fried fresh peas, hulled split fava, roasted fava, cured lupini, pigeon peas prepared as toor dal is launching this Friday Here is the Lentil section from Box 2 Letter Lens culinaris syn Vicia lens Lentils, a seed, get their color from the internal cotyledon, or seed leaves, inside the seed. These cotyledons never sprout, you’ll never seem…

Hello! In anticipation of the launch of Box 3 this Friday I will post the Bean Letter 2 this week leading up to it Box 3 will be Peas, Fava Beans, and Lupin! Here is part 1 of Bean Letter 2, a rough how to on cooking beans Welcome to BEAN YEAR BOX 2 BEAN…

Hey Bean Team, I’m closing orders for Bean Box 2 on Friday 2/28! BEAN YEAR BOX 2 LENTILS: -Brown Lentils – Palouse grown -Black “Beluga” lentils – Palouse grown -French “Puy” lentils – British Columbia grown -Red Split Lentils – Palouse grown -Yellow Split Lentils – Palouse grown BEAN-FAMILY HERBS AND ROOTS -Alfalfa cut and…

This is the Lentils and Bean-Family Herbs and Roots Learn such mysteries as:  What’s the difference between red and yellow lentils?  Where is “Puy”?  Who’s ever eaten caviar?  Who is Tase T Lentil?  Wait, isn’t this bean root poisonous?  Which bean is destroying the American Southwest?  Medicinal plants, are they actually medicinal? Are they even…

Here’s the final section of Bean Letter 1. Bean Box 2 – lentils and bean family herbs launches tomorrow Red Kidney Beans / Rajma This is #1 bean in the #1 bean country on the planet, India. In this first box I wanted to showcase the most popular bean in the US, where we are, and in the…

Here’s the section from bean year letter 1 that covers pinto and Anasazi beans. BEAN YEAR BOX 2 launches this Friday! Phaseolus vulgaris – The Common Bean That Phaseolus vulgaris is now the most commonly eaten bean species in the world is astounding. It is a testament to the history of horticultural work done by the people…