Comments on: The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Bean Soup Edition

By: littlepitcher

littlepitcher — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:15:05 +0000

Boss man won’t eat garbanzo bean soup, and you just made me salivate for a pot.
Get a good sized slice of cheap ham, several cans of garbanzos, a couple of onions, three or four toes of garlic, a pound of carrots, several taters, and either a chorizo or a pack of Vietnamese lap cheong sausages. Saute the onion and garlic in a little ham grease. Cube the ham. If you are using lap cheong, fry a little grease out of it and drain it well, then add to the onions etc. If it’s chorizo, slice it and
toss it in with the ham, onion, and garlic. Peel and cube the taters, slice the carrots, open the beans, and throw it all in the pot. Simmer until the veggies are tender.

By: valleycat1

valleycat1 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:01:22 +0000

If the moths take over the pantry, the moth traps that are sold in the pesticide section work really well!

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:51:17 +0000

@valleycat1: Storing dried things in containers does stop the moths or worms getting in to anything else – and also makes it quite obvious when anything is infested.

We had a couple of infestations before I got sick of cleaning the cupboard and chucking so much food, and got militant about keeping everything in containers (my boyfriend was resistant for a while). Since then, I have had one or 2 things with worms, but I could just chuck the contents of that container (1 or 2 bags of stuff at most) and wash the container. No big deal, maybe 3 minutes of my time and most importantly – no stress at all.

By: Marinda

Marinda — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:39:20 +0000

Thanks for the info about the moths. After they appeared, I cleaned out the pantry and that did away with most. After two reappeared, I put my rice in the freezer and that did the trick. But keeping it there all the time wasn’t an option, so know I can take it out after a week works for me. Once again thanks for that bit of info. I use glass jars to store beans.

By: valleycat1

valleycat1 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:34:33 +0000

Bean soup is one of my cold-weather favorites too.

Storing flour & grains: insect infestation is only slightly avoided by using your own container (keeps ants & other pests out). The moths that sometimes appear hatch from eggs that are already in the grain or flour – best way to avoid that is to store it in the freezer at least for a week, to kill off what’s in there.

By: Hope D

Hope D — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:31:33 +0000

We call bean soup “Magic Bean Soup” after the stories. My kids can be picky but they will eat anything magical.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:23:01 +0000

If you haven’t tried this yet, dump a small jar of salsa into the soup as it simmers. You will never go back. Tastes amazing!