Use Your Pasta Pot for Beans and Stock, Too

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A pasta pot is useful for cooking more than pasta. No matter what you cook, draining is simple — just pull out the insert over the sink. Voila! Rinsing can be done right in the pasta insert also. [...]

Cooking Dry Beans

Updated 3-16-2010 Overview of Bean Preparation: Ingredients & Equipment Start with new crop dry beans. Dry beans that are more than 13 months old are not only less nutritious but harder to rehydrate, and therefore more difficult to cook completely. Reputable natural food warehouses and health foods stores with good turnover can provide delicious, healthy, [...]