Welcome to the first edition of the October Fest Carnival of Super Foods!
Beans, Beans, the musical fruit, the more Katie eats…the more she blogs about them!
I’ve been talking up beans for some time now. They’re one of the many things I have a strange fixation about. But really, it’s okay. I’m mentally stable (mostly). Beans are just so doggone GOOD for you, and being a good kitchen steward means that I love their frugal aspect too.
Bloggers from all over are linking up their bean and legume recipes today. I’m looking for some great soups, probably some Mexican dishes, maybe some wraps or cold salads, and probably some stuff with lentils (the cheapest protein you’ll ever purchase!). It’s exciting!
A Few Bean Cooking Tips
If you have never cooked with dry beans, put on your “I’ll try it!” cap and learn to use dry beans instead of canned.
For maximum nutrition, pair beans with:
- A little bit of meat
- Whole grains
- Vitamin C foods
More on the whys and wherefores of those pairings here (2/3 of the way down).
I also have a whole post on the health benefits of beans and legumes. Told you I was a little crazy about them!
The Beans and Legumes Carnival
If you’re reading this in an email or reader, be sure to click over to the actual website. That’s the only way you can benefit from all the great recipes from other bloggers. Keep checking throughout the weekend, as I will leave the ability to add links up until the next carnival on October 8.
If you’re not a blogger, but you have a great bean recipe, feel free to share it in the comments section. Thank you in advance for contributing to what I hope will be a great resource for all of us!
Guidelines for Participating
- Link up with healthy recipes only – no trans fats allowed, for example.
- You may click on and save the image above to display in your post (but you’re certainly not required to).
- Feel free to link up old posts – who am I to exclude the best super food recipe in the world just because you posted it last year?
- If you have an old post to share, the carnival can be an easy “new” post for the day – just write a post linking to the carnival and to your old post, and you have “something new” to say that day. See how I did this with my homemade chicken stock for two new carnivals here. (I don’t expect this; it’s just an added bonus option.)
- You’re welcome to share more than one post!
- Do link back to the carnival so your readers can benefit from the wealth of recipes. Here is an easy-to-cut-and-paste line for you if you’d like to use it:
- Visit Kitchen Stewardship for more frugal, healthy bean recipes as part of the October Fest Carnival of Super Foods. Next week’s theme: Broth/Stock Recipes.
- If you want to prove how frugal your recipe is, cost out the ingredients. People love that!
- Take the time to click on other recipes, leave comments, Stumble/Digg/Tweet about the carnival. More traffic for the carnival is more traffic for you!
- Upcoming themes for your recipes - put ‘em in your calendar:
- October 1: Beans and Legumes
- October 8: Broth/Stock (not just soups!)
- October 15: Super Foods
- October 22: Un-processed Foods (make at home what most people buy in the store)
- October 29: Healthy Fats
Link Your Bean Recipes HERE!
Carnival is now closed. If it’s still October, you can get in on the latest carnival! See here for details.
Enter your recipe and link(s) in the form below (see example). My husband created this very cool plug-in so you can leave an anecdotal description of your recipe to tempt folks to click over to you. *Thanks, honey!* Your name @ website will link to your mainpage, and the title of your recipe links to the permalink for that recipe.
If you make a mistake, just do it again correctly and I can delete the incorrect version. By the way, I can also blow away any links to recipes that don’t fit the theme or don’t fit the mission of Kitchen Stewardship (i.e., nutritious).
Thanks so much for participating!
UPDATE: You may notice the lack of commas in folks’ entries. That was a bug in the plug-in. A safety feature was designed to avoid people entering nasty code that would break things, but it also had a problem with commas, apparently. It’s fixed – you can put commas in now. Someday I’ll go through and put commas back into people’s posts, but today is not the day. Thanks for understanding! (And thank you, Sarah, for pointing out the bug!)
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Please visit Frugal Fridays at Life as MOM and the Festival of Frugality for more money-saving ideas! I’m also linked into Real Life Blog.
Love the plugin!
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The Titus 2 Homemaker » Blog Archive » Lentils and Rice // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:25 pm
[...] “legumes” at my recipe blog. For other great bean/legume recipes, head on over to the October Fest Carnival. [Comments (0)] [link] [...]
Cheers to the hubby for the plug-in! Fantastic!!!
.-= Sarah´s last blog ..Beans! =-.
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I don’t usually cook beans. I’m not a big fan of the pasty texture but I really want to integrate them in my daily diet. My only concern is that I get the feeling that beans are like carbs, they make you fat… Is this a misconception?
.-= kanmuri´s last blog ..A Korean Tale, Part1 =-.
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Katie Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 1:09 am
Kanmuri,
I bet a lot of people have the same question. Beans are a tricky subject, because they DO have carbs in them, AND protein, and some other goodies. Will they make you fat? You will love my friend’s “bean diet” story in this post: http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2009/04/05/food-for-thought-nutritional-benefits-of-beans-and-legumes/ If the post info doesn’t put your mind at ease, ask more questions and I’ll see what I can do.
Thanks for the great topic, Katie
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Lenetta @ Nettacow Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 10:37 am
Kanmuri, I hear you on the texture. So for our chili, I mash or puree the beans. I do the same thing when I make black beans with Mexican dishes. We like them a lot better that way!
.-= Lenetta @ Nettacow´s last blog ..Sniffing the Mail =-.
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Kanmuri, beans are complex carbohdrates so they fill you up and are digested slowly. If you don’t eat beans what will you eat?
I love the carnival plugin. Will post about it tomorrow.
.-= Hannah´s last blog ..Stuffed Cabbage =-.
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kanmuri Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 1:05 am
I eat meat
.-= kanmuri´s last blog ..A Korean Tale, Part1 =-.
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i’m having a carnival today too – giving away an autographed cookbook from paula deen!!
stop on by!
.-= melissa from girlymama´s last blog ..try this carnival: comfort foods **giveaway** =-.
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Loaded Tostadas | The Finer Things in Life // Oct 1, 2009 at 9:07 am
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Katie,
Sorry for the multiple links to my blog. It still didn’t hyperlink…not sure what I was doing wrong.
I am going to enjoy reading all these great recipes, though.
.-= DarcyLee´s last blog ..Sauteed Corn and Black Beans =-.
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I love beans and one of my favorite recipes is Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas
1-2 chopped, cooked chicken breasts (about 1 1/2 cups chopped, cooked chicken)
2 cans of black beans
1 cup salsa
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 clove minced garlic
1 cup shredded cheese, divided
8-10 large flour tortillas
Mix all ingredients except tortillas in a large bowl, using only 3/4 cup of the cheese. Spoon mixture onto each tortilla with a slotted spoon and roll tightly. Place filled tortillas seam side down in a 13×9 baking dish. Pour juice left over from the filling on top of the enchiladas and top with remaining cheese. Bake at 375 F. for about 20 min covered with foil then about 5 min. uncovered. Serve with sour cream.
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Wow, great participation happening here! Nice work.
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I just wanted to say thank you for doing this festival. I’m really enjoying reading all the posts!
.-= Kari´s last blog ..Autumn-Glazed Chickpea Salad =-.
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I don’t know if this is REALLY a recipe, but this is how i make the beans i eat in my bean burritos:
i heat up 1/4 cup of water in a skillet, add curry powder, chili powder, and cumin, and add the canned rinsed beans (kidney, cannelini, chickpea) and stir stir stir until the water is almost evaporated and everything becomes saucy. eat plain or in a burrito! =D
.-= tra´s last blog ..A puff of air =-.
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Wow! I was looking for a recipe to use up these beans in the back of my pantry and I really hit the jack pot here! I will be back for more great stuff and I love all the links to other blogs too. I really need the frugal recipes cooking for a houseful of kids on one income and triplets in diapers.
.-= Amy´s last blog ..The chair game =-.
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Friday Roundup #15 and Two Carnivals | Cooking Manager // Jan 11, 2012 at 9:01 am
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