Lima Beans

[Midnight Toker]

"There are kids starving in Africa!!"

"Can we send them these lima beans??"

W/ liver and onions!!

 

[davismanLV]

Weird thing is I LOVED liver and onions!! LOVED it!! And so did my dad but my mom hated it so we rarely had it. I know a lot of people hate L&O. So weird, put lima beans on my plate and it'd take me 45 minutes of uninspired chewing just to make half of them go away. L&O, BOOM, clean plate!! What a weird kid I was....

 

[Midnight Toker]

Weird thing is I LOVED liver and onions!! LOVED it!! And so did my dad but my mom hated it so we rarely had it. I know a lot of people hate L&O. So weird, put lima beans on my plate and it'd take me 45 minutes of uninspired chewing just to make half of them go away. L&O, BOOM, clean plate!! What a weird kid I was....

I didn't hate it. At least not the taste. My mom knew how to make it better than most, soaking the liver in milk for a day. It was the chewing on and spitting out a fat vein that would turn my stomach.

 

[GAD]

I assume I'm an outlier, but there isn't anything you can do to lima beans to make me like them...

walrus

Nope - me too. I was a picky eater, but lima beans would make me gag which just further annoyed my parents. I can remember sitting at the table for hours because I had to sit there until they were gone. I'd usually "win" in the end, but even today just reading the words "lima beans" makes gag.

 

[Nuuska]

I assume I'm an outlier, but there isn't anything you can do to lima beans to make me like them...

walrus

Is it because you know the meaning of word "lima" in finnish ?

 

[GGJaguar]

Lima beans, no. Cannellini beans, yes please.

 

[Opsimath]

My mom said she didn't eat what she didn't like and wasn't going to make her kids do it. I guess I was lucky.

Many years ago I heard a story about a dad forcing his son to eat something on his plate, despite protests that it was making him sick. After the kid threw up at the table dad never again tried to make him eat something he didn't like.

Everyone's tastes are different and they change. There are things I eat now that I used to refuse, but liver isn't one of them!

 

[Opsimath]

Veer:
SIMPLEST and best biscuit recipe - IMHO 1. Whipping Cream
2. Self Rising Flour
Follow directions on back of flour for biscuits.
You add "NO" other ingredients.
Simple simple simple!!

Never heard of this. I'll look into it. Thank you.

I went through a period of making angel biscuits, they have yeast in them, but haven't made any in a while. Lately it has been cornbread with onion cooked in butter, kernel corn, and cheese. That would be good with those beans!

 

[davismanLV]

I'm not one of those that loves to cook. I cook to eat. There are certain things I can do well, but they're usually very simple dishes. One thing that we never got as kids was much country type foods. Don, coming from West Virginia was all about country foods and his mom was known to be one of the best cooks in the whole county. The only thing she ever made me was biscuits with squirrel and gravy. It was delicious!!

So one thing that I always loved and craved was Chicken and Dumplings!! Just basic and easy and tasty and filling. But I'd avoid it because making dumplings is a chore. Not hard, really, but I just hated doing it. So a couple of years ago I was craving it but whining because I didn't want to make the stupid dumplings and Don says, "We have Pillsbury Grands Buttermilk Biscuits frozen in the bag, just use those." Well, hell! So I make this dish at least once a week now. Quick and easy. Set out the frozen biscuits for a bit, cut them in quarters and throw them into the chicken and thickened stock. 10 minutes uncovered, 10 minutes covered and DONE!! What a great hack! Frozen biscuits as dumplings!! Looks like this and takes amazing!!



So some might go, "OMG, the CARBS!!" but keep in mind that each of those big, fluffy dumplings is 1/4 of a buttermilk biscuit, so four big fluffy dumplings is one biscuit. It's not that bad.

 

[Guildedagain]

2. Self Rising Flour

Nope. Has aluminum in it, not good, unless you want dementia.

 

[davismanLV]

Nope. Has aluminum in it, not good, unless you want dementia.

Self-Rising Flour has aluminum in it? Seriously??

Apparently some baking powder has aluminum sulfate in it. The FDA says it's not harmful.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Self-Rising Flour has aluminum in it? Seriously??

1/2 the stuff in your pantry....or even your medicine cabinet and shower likely has some form of aluminum in it. I'd worry most about checking the things you'd use on a daily basis which may increase toxicity levels beyond what the human body can withstand. Like your deoderant, or shampoo/conditioner. Eating pizza every couple weeks isn't going to give you dementia, even though aluminum is found in all canned tomato sauce (which every pizzeria uses!) It's also found in salt, and baking powder, and self rising flour, and donuts, cookies, muffins, pancakes, brownies, etc etc. Again, all I would worry about is what you use on a daily basis and try and find a alternate product free of aluminum. Deoderants likely put more aluminum in more people's bodies than anything....unless you own a pastry shop!!

Edit:, and btw, I too am a big fan of chicken and dumplings. The dumplings I make are super easy, but do require some countertop cleanup afterwards. They are basically poor man's dumplings. Just look up "how to make dumplings with just flour and water!! That's it!! (The flour does get seasoned w/ salt/pepper). Flour a clean part of counter, flour it, roll it out till it's about 1/8th" thick, cut it into long 1" strips, then I start clipping off pieces w/ scissors right into a simmering pot w/ the stock/chicken/veggies.

I Have done a version in a deep dish cast iron pan in the oven where I topped it w/ a top layer of those pillsbury "pop open" can biscuits. Like a chicken and dumplings version of Sheppards pie. (The biscuits while baked on the top, remain more like your dumplings on the bottom side touching the liquid.

 

[Guildedagain]

Add grated parmesan to the biscuit mix for mind blowing biscuits.

Re Guildedagain, post #9 - "biscuit mix"? What's that?

I didn't mean biscuit mix as in something out of a box, I meant add it to your biscuit mix, the stuff you pour in your bowl to make biscuits.

Easy biscuits

4 cups all purpose flour
3 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup oil

If using buttermilk, substitute 1/2 tsp soda for 1 tsp baking powder

Bake @ 450º 10-15 min til brown on bottom

To make scones, add 1/4 cup sugar to above recipe, and 1 cup of raisins or currants.

 

[Guildedagain]

The FDA says it's not harmful.

I also recently read that the FDA is failing Americans.

I heard a long time ago that Aluminum wasn't good for you, especially tomato sauce in aluminum cooking pans, anything acidic. Linked to concentration impairment, dementia. Now of course it's fine.

However Canadian/European papers agree, not good for you.

Remember - if you can - Everything you know is wrong.

 

[davismanLV]

1/2 the stuff in your pantry....or even your medicine cabinet and shower likely has some form of aluminum in it. I'd worry most about checking the things you'd use on a daily basis which may increase toxicity levels beyond what the human body can withstand. Like your deoderant, or shampoo/conditioner.

You've seen my head, right? I go pretty easy on the shampoo/conditioner.....

 

[Opsimath]

I didn't mean biscuit mix as in something out of a box, I meant add it to your biscuit mix, the stuff you pour in your bowl to make biscuits.

Easy biscuits

4 cups all purpose flour
3 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup oil

If using buttermilk, substitute 1/2 tsp soda for 1 tsp baking powder

Bake @ 450º 10-15 min til brown on bottom

To make scones, add 1/4 cup sugar to above recipe, and 1 cup of raisins or currants.

I ditched the box biscuit mix many years ago. I used to use it a lot and they made moist fluffy biscuits, then something changed and the biscuits were dry and awful. Convenient, yes. Edible, not so much, so went back to making them from scratch, and I get to try lots of different recipes. Thank you for sharing yours. It might be time to come out of my cornbread phase and into a biscuit phase.

 

[Midnight Toker]

My GF's mother makes cornbread w/ a can of creamed corn in it and they are amazing. they are from NC, and for them growing up there way back when, making biscuits were considered an important part of a girl's right of passage. During the bygone era of the "homemaker", women were judged by their family stock, their looks, their personality, and their brains.....but in some parts of the south, most of all, by their biscuits!!! (and if the sausage gravy is to die for....you marry that woman!!!)

 

[Guildedagain]

Cornbread also benefits from buttermilk, which is really to make.

Same substitution with baking soda/baking powder.

 

[Opsimath]

My GF's mother makes cornbread w/ a can of creamed corn in it and they are amazing. they are from NC, and for them growing up there way back when, making biscuits were considered an important part of a girl's right of passage. During the bygone era of the "homemaker", women were judged by their family stock, their looks, their personality, and their brains.....but in some parts of the south, most of all, by their biscuits!!! (and if the sausage gravy is to die for....you marry that woman!!!)

I tried the creamed corn, but prefer kernel corn in the cornbread, but it could be because I don't like creamed corn. With ham left from Easter, there will be diced ham in the next pan, along with the onions, corn, and cheese. Probably a pot of chili to go with it, also with some ham added in. I think I know what's for supper tomorrow.

Funny about biscuits being a right of passage. I think it was the first thing we made in Home-Ec cooking class. I still have the recipe card in my eighth grade handwriting. They were okay, but I have found other recipes I like better, or maybe it's that my biscuit making technique has had time to improve.

 

[Midnight Toker]

You've seen my head, right? I go pretty easy on the shampoo/conditioner.....

Sorry Tom, wasn't aimed directly at you. But while we're at it, skin cream and suntan lotion have aluminum as well.