"We've 'bean' there before with new delightful ideas with new comfort foods!"

Our continued "comfort food" craze gave us this new idea for "beans": high in fibre, complex carbs (very health for the heart, digestion, blood sugar and maintenance of good body weight!) and lean as a good source of protein (and which is non-fattening).

Try the new lentils or peas, white navy beans, brown turtle beans, chick peas, or porc-n-bean surprise with the new fangled cooker of the Christmas Season.

And try the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker (R) - available at your local Canadian Tire store (check for availability) that multiplies as: cake maker, canning machine, egg cooker, food warmer, pressure cooker, rice cooker, saute pot, slow cooker, steamer, sterilizer and yoghurt maker. It's just too versatile for a cooker!

The beans can be prepared as follows:

1) Seasoned further with a home-made cream of mushroom soup cooked in porc/chicken broth and herbs and spices.

2) Seasoned further with a creamed chicken broth soup for sauce with seasoning like rosemary, thyme and sage and paprika (sweet and/or pre-fried), amongst others.

3) Cooked as home-made porc-n-beans (white navy or mixed beans as with kidney and chick peas). See recipe for this at our foodie site at listing of biomed. co. websites on hum-molgen.de.

4) Herbs and spices with cheese (e. g. cracked black pepper, pimiento, and other dairy goat white cheese) in a thickened cream sauce with Mexican brown turtle beans.

Use the Instant Pot (R) and serve a pot of Oriental rice or Philippine arroz a la valenciana (yellow rice); and reheated leftovers: like entrees of Hungarian goulash and other favourite stews (e.g. brisket); Oriental steamed dumplings with bean filling; and frozen yoghurt for desserts with fruit compote.

You can save money by canning on the side for canned or jarred delights and serving in season fruit preserves or pickled gherkins.