Beans!

Yesterday, we read a book from Norah Dooley called Everybody Cooks Rice. In this book, the main character goes around her neighborhood looking for her brother for dinner. Each neighbor she goes to is cooking a different kind of rice, from Indian biryani to Haitian red beans and rice.

In our class, we started talking about beans, and the kinds of beans that we eat at home (and if we don't like beans, too). We decided we should make a class cookbook with different recipes that involve beans. We sent home an optional homework assignment to collect some recipes.

If your family has a favorite recipe with beans, send it in, and we will put it in our cookbook!

Here is a video Mr. MacLellan made about how to cook dried beans from scratch:


Dried beans take a long, long, long time to cook! Your recipe doesn't have to start from dried beans, canned ones are fine! We look forward to getting your recipes!