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07-29-2011, 11:36 AM
This Tutorial is one I have been working on for a long time.
I think a lot of times it easy to get caught up in my mind with a "this is how we cook" mental state. In the last few years I've studied and applied the use of
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/Solar%20cooking" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">Solar cooking</a> , including the building of several different </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/Solar%20Oven" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">Solar Oven</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> cookers. I've come a long way since </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-first-solar-oven.html" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">My first solar oven</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">In that process I learned a lot. Number one, first and foremost...I can learn something new everyday. Second...I <i>should</i> learn something new about how to cook food. I'm a chef and as food is hard wired in my brain so is the absolute desire to see that people all over the world are blessed. I have a vision of seeing lives changed every day through my efforts...and I hope you do too. I know that together, we can make a difference. Wow. I just got really sappy right there. {Insert suave eyebrow raise} I know. I don't do that often.</span></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">So today's tutorial has come to pass after being so excited about instant beans! After the last few classes on </span> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/52%20jar%20method">Convenience Meals</a> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> and cooking with them, I've had a lot of requests for this tutorial. I found some instant beans from THRIVE that can are already made, but I also wanted to see if it could be done at home. Yup. Totally can be done. Highlighted today are the ever amazing beans from Colorado. All hail the farm-folk up there! Dang it. There's a lady who lives in my house named who grew up with those bean folk...and a gal named Elsie who almost cried when she saw her beloved Bolita beans from CO come home </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">once again. Thanks folks. Awesome beans! I found these at our local </span></div>
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These are the Zuni Gold beans. I think they're pretty. I'd hot glue them to my favorite funky-purse and wear them as a snazzy accessory...but I think today we'll just cook them instead. Right?{ I'm secretly stuffing some in my pocket of to my right side. Now I'm mystically waving my hands in front of your face. You didn't <i>see</i> anything.}
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Our Heat Retention cooking class starts NOW. For more on this amazing cooking method look <a href="http://chefstephanie.multiply.com/journal/item/531/Heat-retention_Cooking_for_Emergency_and_Every_Day">HERE</a>. It's not, in fact, a new method! I've used my solar cooker as a sun-less cooker! Yes...it can be done! You can cook without the sun too! It's been particularly off-n-on sunny the last bit so I wasn't sure if I could pull it off...but I did. So I'm showing you. I did the post on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2011/03/using-your-sun-oven-as-slow-cooker-101.html" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">Using Your Sun Oven as a Slow Cooker 101</a></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> but failed to mention what to do should the sunlight be intermittent or it get cloudy shortly into your cooking. Heaven forbid! Well...there is salvation.</span></span>
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Soak the beans in water overnight. Drain. Add 6 cups more water. Bring to a simmer and cook 15 minutes (or in the solar oven, cook 20 minutes until at 350 degrees.)
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At this point, let's hypothetically say that the sun goes behind the clouds. In Arizona we've had several days like this lately. Annoying. But...I've found this out...I can sitll cook the beans.
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Cover the pot with towels, tightly fitting them around the bottom and sides of the hot pot. If you don't have a solar oven, this method will also work using a hay basket lined with blankets. For more on this amazing cooking method look <a href="http://chefstephanie.multiply.com/journal/item/531/Heat-retention_Cooking_for_Emergency_and_Every_Day">HERE</a>. It's not, in fact, a new method!
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Close up your solar oven and allow beans to cook for 1 1/2 hours or more. Up to 8 hours. Now. To make them into Instant beans that cook much quicker I made use of my method for <a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2010/08/sundried-tomato-pesto-from-solar-oven.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>Solar Dehydrating</b></span></a> using my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2010/04/bigger-bolder-sun-ovenbig-enough-for-12.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>Bigger Bolder Sun Oven...big enough for 12 loaves</b></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> . This has been an epic tool for dehydating and getting the food warm for things like beans. At any rate. The cooked beans can go on a metal cooling rack in the solar oven and if the top of the oven is vented open by having a crack left unclosed, they will start as this...</span>
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12-15 hours later they will be dry and shelf stable like this:
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These can be cooked in as little as 20 minutes! Take one cup of instant beans and 3 cups of water. Simmer...or heat for 10 minutes over boiling water and use the Heat Retention method we talked about here. Either way will work.
I have enjoyed using them in my <a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/52%20jar%20method"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Convenience Meals</span></b></a> in a Jar.
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Personal favorite...the Bean and Rice Fajita Casserole using the Heat Retention Method.</div>
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There you go! Some awesome new tips for cooking without power and making instant beans!
Again, if you want to learn more about the heat retention method I also recommend this e- book:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b> <i><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.bamboogrovepress.com/Ebooks.htm">Retained Heat Cooking ... the Wave of the Future Again</a> . </span></i></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's only 55 pages and under 10$ and I learned A LOT from reading it. xoxo! Special thanks to Leslie Romano who wrote the book!
I think a lot of times it easy to get caught up in my mind with a "this is how we cook" mental state. In the last few years I've studied and applied the use of
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/Solar%20cooking" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">Solar cooking</a> , including the building of several different </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/Solar%20Oven" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">Solar Oven</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> cookers. I've come a long way since </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-first-solar-oven.html" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">My first solar oven</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">In that process I learned a lot. Number one, first and foremost...I can learn something new everyday. Second...I <i>should</i> learn something new about how to cook food. I'm a chef and as food is hard wired in my brain so is the absolute desire to see that people all over the world are blessed. I have a vision of seeing lives changed every day through my efforts...and I hope you do too. I know that together, we can make a difference. Wow. I just got really sappy right there. {Insert suave eyebrow raise} I know. I don't do that often.</span></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">So today's tutorial has come to pass after being so excited about instant beans! After the last few classes on </span> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/52%20jar%20method">Convenience Meals</a> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> and cooking with them, I've had a lot of requests for this tutorial. I found some instant beans from THRIVE that can are already made, but I also wanted to see if it could be done at home. Yup. Totally can be done. Highlighted today are the ever amazing beans from Colorado. All hail the farm-folk up there! Dang it. There's a lady who lives in my house named who grew up with those bean folk...and a gal named Elsie who almost cried when she saw her beloved Bolita beans from CO come home </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">once again. Thanks folks. Awesome beans! I found these at our local </span></div>
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These are the Zuni Gold beans. I think they're pretty. I'd hot glue them to my favorite funky-purse and wear them as a snazzy accessory...but I think today we'll just cook them instead. Right?{ I'm secretly stuffing some in my pocket of to my right side. Now I'm mystically waving my hands in front of your face. You didn't <i>see</i> anything.}
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Our Heat Retention cooking class starts NOW. For more on this amazing cooking method look <a href="http://chefstephanie.multiply.com/journal/item/531/Heat-retention_Cooking_for_Emergency_and_Every_Day">HERE</a>. It's not, in fact, a new method! I've used my solar cooker as a sun-less cooker! Yes...it can be done! You can cook without the sun too! It's been particularly off-n-on sunny the last bit so I wasn't sure if I could pull it off...but I did. So I'm showing you. I did the post on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2011/03/using-your-sun-oven-as-slow-cooker-101.html" style="color: #26d3b0; text-decoration: none;">Using Your Sun Oven as a Slow Cooker 101</a></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> but failed to mention what to do should the sunlight be intermittent or it get cloudy shortly into your cooking. Heaven forbid! Well...there is salvation.</span></span>
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Soak the beans in water overnight. Drain. Add 6 cups more water. Bring to a simmer and cook 15 minutes (or in the solar oven, cook 20 minutes until at 350 degrees.)
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At this point, let's hypothetically say that the sun goes behind the clouds. In Arizona we've had several days like this lately. Annoying. But...I've found this out...I can sitll cook the beans.
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Cover the pot with towels, tightly fitting them around the bottom and sides of the hot pot. If you don't have a solar oven, this method will also work using a hay basket lined with blankets. For more on this amazing cooking method look <a href="http://chefstephanie.multiply.com/journal/item/531/Heat-retention_Cooking_for_Emergency_and_Every_Day">HERE</a>. It's not, in fact, a new method!
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Close up your solar oven and allow beans to cook for 1 1/2 hours or more. Up to 8 hours. Now. To make them into Instant beans that cook much quicker I made use of my method for <a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2010/08/sundried-tomato-pesto-from-solar-oven.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>Solar Dehydrating</b></span></a> using my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2010/04/bigger-bolder-sun-ovenbig-enough-for-12.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>Bigger Bolder Sun Oven...big enough for 12 loaves</b></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> . This has been an epic tool for dehydating and getting the food warm for things like beans. At any rate. The cooked beans can go on a metal cooling rack in the solar oven and if the top of the oven is vented open by having a crack left unclosed, they will start as this...</span>
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12-15 hours later they will be dry and shelf stable like this:
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These can be cooked in as little as 20 minutes! Take one cup of instant beans and 3 cups of water. Simmer...or heat for 10 minutes over boiling water and use the Heat Retention method we talked about here. Either way will work.
I have enjoyed using them in my <a href="http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/search/label/52%20jar%20method"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Convenience Meals</span></b></a> in a Jar.
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Personal favorite...the Bean and Rice Fajita Casserole using the Heat Retention Method.</div>
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There you go! Some awesome new tips for cooking without power and making instant beans!
Again, if you want to learn more about the heat retention method I also recommend this e- book:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b> <i><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT'; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.bamboogrovepress.com/Ebooks.htm">Retained Heat Cooking ... the Wave of the Future Again</a> . </span></i></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's only 55 pages and under 10$ and I learned A LOT from reading it. xoxo! Special thanks to Leslie Romano who wrote the book!