Comments on: Foodie Files: Calypso Beans

By: disenchanted

disenchanted — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:30:10 +0000

FYI — I just deleted a complete and utter troll. Dude, just because I cuss in my blog doesn’t mean I cuss in the classroom. Go be a troll somewhere else.

By: Garden

Garden — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:44:38 +0000

I share your enthusiasm for beans, so I feel I must offer this feedback: Do not put salt water in your soaking water. In fact, try to refrain from adding any salt or anything acidic until the beans have started to soften. Both salt and acid will slow the cooking/softening process.
Try the cannellini beans – they are large, like out of scale food and they are delicious cooked with finely chopped, garlic, onion, celery, vegetable broth, fresh thyme and rosemary and a couple od swigs of cooking sherry.
As a gardener, I fully support growing your food, but if time , space or patience are an issue these types of bean can also be purchased over the web.
Enjoy!

By: disenchanted

disenchanted — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:11:27 +0000

I would probably do them the same way on the stove, but I’d be sure to soak them at least eight hours … otherwise, they’d take forever to cook. Of course, I was using dried beans; if they’re fresh, I suspect that you wouldn’t need the soak.

Hmmm. Now you have me thinking. Maybe I should try to grow these since our regional (as in 2 hours away) Whole Foods stopped carrying them.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:28:21 +0000

Thanks for all this. I’m growing these bad boys and don’t know much of them since they came in a set package along with other veggies. So I wasn’t sure how to cook them or what they were like. I’m growing the expensive boys!!!! Nice!!

Would you do it the same on the stove by the way?

By: disenchanted

disenchanted — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:59:29 +0000

I’m glad you could still find these beans. Our Whole Foods has stopped carrying them! We also checked in Santa Fe and that store didn’t have the beans either.

As for the advice … we sometimes add extra stuff, depending on what is in the ‘fridge. usually we keep the beans plain, simply because The Coach is not a fan of the other veggies you mentioned. Oh, and we can’t find really good andouille up here in the midwest (I’m a bit of a snob about that, simply because I used to live in Louisiana — seafood is another thing that we don’t but around here).

The Internet, however, is a wonderful thing. Thanks for the comment.

By: Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:29:22 +0000

This is one of those only-on-the-Internet thing, but I was Googling Red Calypso Beans and found your blog/recipe. I made them in the crockpot yesterday, following your general advice, but also modifying a good red-beans-and-rice recipe, which involves sauteing onion, green pepper and celery, then adding some garlic. I also threw in a ham hock and a pound of andouille sausage. For complicated reasons, we didn’t eat these for dinner last night, but I’ve read that red beans taste even better the second night, so I’m heating them up right now. Not exactly red beans and rice. At the risk of sacrilege, I’ll suggest that these beans might be a little better.

Anyway, thanks. This is one of those days when I love the Internet.

By: disenchanted

disenchanted — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:07:45 +0000

LOL – The crockpot thing was a completely inadvertent pun! I think the trick for the beans is to soak them in salt water overnight and cook them slowly. I then make my rice seperately and mix it in about 10 minutes before serving. I tried making the rice in the crockpot with the beans (adding it an hour or two before serving), but it always comes out crappy that way.

By: koko

koko — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:21:41 +0000

diggy dang girl…you really need to come here and make me some beans! i WUBS beans. being a vegetarian it’s a good source of protein. i should email you to see how you prepare your ricenbeans. i’ve not tried to make them cause i messed it up once and it tasted like crapola.

hopefully only your crockpot let em rip…cause i know they can rip other things….like butt air. *pew* damned gassy foods!