Legumes

They extract Nitrogen Gas N2 from the air, and transport it to their roots. There, symbiotic microorganisms convert the Nitrogen into compounds that the plants can use for growth, such as ammonia.

1/2 cup carrot, chopped

1/2 cup celery, chopped

1/2 cup onion, chopped

1/4 cup (or less) cilantro, minced

3 cans black beans (low sodium preferred)

2 cans Rotel (one original and one extra spicy)

1 can Mexi-corn (regular corn will do)

2 tablespoons cooking oil

2 fresh medium banana peppers, chopped (optional)

1 fresh jalapeno pepper, chopped (optional)

1 pinch garlic salt (optional)

flour/corn tortillas Chop vegetables into bite-size pieces. Heat oil in a Dutch oven. Add all vegetables and seasonings to the Dutch oven, except cilantro. Cook over medium heat until tender. Add all remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil and then simmer covered for 20 minutes or more; stirring occasionally. Serve with flame-warmed tortillas for a perfectly authentic Mexican flavor.

Navy beans are small and oval in shape. They're smooth textured and tender. Boston baked beans are made with navy beans. Cannelloni beans are larger than navy beans and are kidney shaped. They're smooth and tender with a thin skin. Good in salads and stews. Great northern beans are another white bean. They're larger than the navy beans and have a grainy texture. All of these white beans can pretty much be used interchangeably.

This is because there are more resoruces and factorys in the richer countries to process the cocoa beans.

actually, yes there is but it's very difficult to explain. you get a certain feeling and then bam you know if the person is a french vanilla or a vanilla bean.personally, i find that vanilla bean people are more laid back, but that could just be my interpretation.

Kidney beans and all 200 varieties of P. vulgaris originated in the tropical southern part of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and part of Costa Rica, where they were cultivated as early as 8,000 years ago. They spread from this center of origin to North and South America.

European explorers, including Christopher Columbus, found the climbing beans typically planted alongside corn. In Columbus's diary from November 4, 1492, he describes lands in Cuba planted with faxones and fabas "different than ours." Later he encountered fexoes and habas that were different than the ones he knew from Spain. Faxones and fexoes were probably cow peas and fabas and habas were fava beans. The beans Columbus found were common beans, Phaseolus vulgaris. When Christopher Columbus returned from his second voyage to the New World in 1493, he brought the common beans back with him to Europe.

Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485-1528) was a Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France. On July 8, 1524, he wrote to King Francis, reporting on the people of what is now Rhode Island, "They live on the same food as the other people-beans (which they produce with more systematic cultivation than the other tribes, and when sowing they observe the influence of the moon, the rising of the Pleiades, and many other customs derived from the ancients)…" Native Americans boiled the bean pods at the mature stage and pulled the beans between their teeth, discarding the pods.

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 - 22 September 1554) and his fellow explorers are believed to have been the first Europeans to eat beans grown by Native Americans in what is now New Mexico, between 1540 and 1542.

The English first used the name "kidney bean" in 1551 to distinguish the American common bean from Old World types.

Grown in Colonial America, kidney beans were cultivated by Acadian farmers in Louisiana in the late 1700s and planted by Spanish settlers. Haitians emigrating to New Orleans in the late 1700s brought spicy Caribbean recipes for beans and rice. Enslaved African plantation workers along the Mississippi River also ate meals of spicy "red beans" and rice.

In New Orleans red beans and rice was prepared on Mondays because the dish could simmer on the stove all day while laundry was being washed. New Orleans' favorite son, jazz trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, is said to have signed his letters "Red Beans and Ricely Yours."

round about 1850

Beans will not soften if cooked in an acidic solution. If making a dish with beans, dried beans must be cooked separately and added after they have achieved the desired texture. Most bean dishes such as chile, baked beans, and soups are acidic; this is why the beans will not soften after addition to the dish. You can add 1/8 tsp of baking soda per cup of dried beans to assure that the cooking water is not acidic, but this is seldom necessary.

Probably Lima, the capital city of Peru.

Well, they certainly aren't a meat - kidney refers to the shape and color of the bean, not that it comes from a kidney. Beans are legumes - and, yes, that makes them a vegetable.

That's what happens when you put metal near a microwave/magnatron, You shouldn't make a habit of it but if it still works it will be fine to use it.

Ham and Bean Soup, also known as "Senate Bean Soup", is thought to have been created during World War II as a result of food rationing. Due to a shortage of beans, ham hocks were added as both a flavoring and to make the soup heartier.

in my ass

Many in my region (western Ky.) use the beans in their yards to kill grub worms as to ward off moles in our yards. Works pretty good.

Chickpeas originated in the Middle East and Mediterranean region thousands of years ago. They have been grown and consumed in countries like Turkey, Egypt, and India for centuries, and are now widely popular in various cuisines around the world due to their nutritional value and versatility.