PLEASE tell me black beans aren't soy!
Posted by yabbitgirl on Mar 05, 2008 · Member since Apr 2006 · 14266 posts
Everyone on VW knows by now how I crave black beans. Well I bought some "black bean chili sauce" at the Asian market. Reading the label like a good little veggie, I read "soya negra" (black soybeans).
Please somebody tell me that my beloved black beans aren't soy....because I'm not supposed to eat much soy. Please tell me that "black soybeans" are a different animal to my turtle beans. Please, please.
I know that there are black soy beans, but I think that plain old black beans are a different breed altogether. NO worries!
I agree--I'm pretty sure black beans are in the pinto familly ;)b
Common black beans (black turtle beans) are the ones that are common in Latin cooking. Douchi (black beans) are fermented soy beans used in Asian cuisine. They are very different and you have nothing to worry about so go eat some black beans!! ;D
http://www.foodreference.com/html/artblackbeans.html
Sure they are, soya delicious!
Okay. I really don't know, because there are black soybeans. Regular black beans are Phaseolus vulgaris, I think.
Vulgaris, that's me...I'm as vulgaris as they come.
Whew!! :w00t!:
I'm off to soak me some black beans....
Ooh! I discovered last weekend that soaking black beans makes the water a purdy colour. ;) Kind of aubergine-purple...
Ooh! I discovered last weekend that soaking black beans makes the water a purdy colour. ;) Kind of aubergine-purple...
You said aubergine!! Ah, you're making me miss the UK (I know you're in NZ, but they say aubergine in the UK too). Does that mean you say corgette instead of zucchini??! Next big vacation is going to be somewhere in the UK...
Ooh! I discovered last weekend that soaking black beans makes the water a purdy colour. ;) Kind of aubergine-purple...
You said aubergine!! Ah, you're making me miss the UK (I know you're in NZ, but they say aubergine in the UK too). Does that mean you say corgette instead of zucchini??! Next big vacation is going to be somewhere in the UK...
Yuppers, I say courgette, although zucchini is a nifty word. :P Most people in NZ say eggplant, but I think aubergine sounds so much nicer. ;)b
Heliamphora, when I was in my teens I discovered an NZ author who wrote "romance novels" that were unintentionally hysterically funny! (Lines like, "Their eyes met as she reached for the roast.") I learned the "proper" words for things like:
aubergine
slice (vs. "bar cookie")
courgette
pikelet
"throw over" or "coarse towel"
bench (for "kitchen counter")
and one of my favourites, "chocolate chippy biscuits".
One of the funniest parts of her writing was that she wrote to a formula. Most of her heroines were redheaded minister's daughters (Presbyterian of course!) but they all went "beyond the foothills" to find a job where they would be loved for themselves alone. They always got cut off from civilisation by some natural disaster such as flood, blizzard or earthquake, and found themselves alone with the station owner's kids and his handsome (single) manager! Usually they "proved themselves" by some feat of derring-do. My favourite is a book I have since lost. A bush pig gets into the house and she knocks it unconscious by sticking a clothes-prop through the window of the room it's in, and--hang onto yourself--knocking the marble clock off the mantlepiece onto its head!! After all, she had to save the antique rosewood furniture!!
Back in the 70's my mother thought Mills and Boons were "dirty books" and some raised eyebrows were caused when shrieks of laughter came from the sofa where I'd be reading one of these treasures!