kthread cooks: cranberry beans
The other night I introduced a new and rather intriguing friend to my favorite legume: the cranberry bean. (Note: this episode looks much better in HD here.)
A white bean speckled with purple, the cranberry bean is at once homey and elegant–unadorned, a simple meal, or an excellent partner for caramelized onions, corn, and country bacon.
Shelled and simmered in stock, the beans become a base for conversational layers, and just as the bean dehisces, I find new people and places expose seams in my understanding, which, opened, lead to discovery…
watch this episode in HD on Vimeo
cranberry bean wallpaper on Flickr
drink pairing: earthy Pinot Noir
salt recommendation: Sel Gris
What would you stir into cranberry beans? Other thoughts on this favorite bean of mine?
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Posted Tuesday, May 20th, 2008, 9:26 pm | Filed in Entertaining, Food, Photography, Video. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Funny, I was just wondering where to get cranberry beans here in C’ville while I rambled around the market last weekend. I was thinking pairing them with some garlicky kale, myself.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Dana, that sounds like a wonderful combination. Every time I cook cranberry beans I think of that afternoon we shelled them with Katrina–