Re: any other cooking with soaked grains cookbooks out there

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At 04:56 AM 6/30/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>Does anyone know of and other good cookbooks that show you

>how to cook in the old traditional ways, such as soaked grains, seeds,

>and legumes, cooking slowly?

I've cut and clipped a few recipes here and there, esp. Mexican cookbooks

(Rick Bayliss is good).

Hey, learn from the people who use them a lot! The one thing that works

really good (besides soaking)

is to cook beans with onion, gralic, some meat, and MEXICAN OREGANO. The

oregano made all the difference.

That, and learning to roast, soak, and grind those whole dried peppers they

sell in the market. After the

beans are cooked, you make a good chili sauce (lots of recipes) using dried

peppers, onion, plus whatever

else you want, to add to the cooked beans when you eat them (a sauce). This

makes for a nice fresh

flavor on top of the 'cooked' flavors of the beans.

Most genuine Mexican recipes use Masa (which is already soaked in lime),

or cornmeal (which you can easily soak (whether or not the recipe says to),

or beans (which you can easily soak). So you can make any of the recipes

NT.

This pretty much holds true for older recipes around the world: Eastern

Indian cooking, for instance. And you can find a whole bunch of them

on the Net for free.

Heidi