[Sca-cooks] Beans, beans, the musical fruit....

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An entry from China:  long beans...
Kiri

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> > I'm working on lesson plans for nutrition classes (various age ranges). 
> > I'm on the Beans segment just now, and have a list of beans to discuss: 
> > aduki, anasazi, black-eyed peas, black turtle, fava, garbanzo or 
> chickpeas, 
> > great northern, kidney, lentils, lima, mung, navy, pinto, red, soybean, 
> > split peas. 
> 
> Some more: 
> Liana bean 
> https://www.vermontbean.com/vbsite/vbsiteviewproduct.aspx?ProductID=7022 
> 
> Scarlet Runner (Hummingbirds like the flowers) 
> http://www.humeseeds.com/beansr.htm 
> 
> Hyacinth bean 
> http://www.humeseeds.com/beanhy.htm 
> 
> Lupines 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Lupinus+perennis 
> 
> Lotus bean 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Nelumbo+nucifera 
> 
> Winged bean (To me these look like they could be from some other planet.) 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Psophocarpus+tetragonolobus 
> 
> Mescal bean 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Sophora+secundiflora 
> 
> There is a bean from India that I can't think of the name of at the moment. 
> 
> White acre pea 
> Can't find a photo, but it is a small white crowder pea type. Very tasty. 
> 
> There's a large lima that's somewhere in size between a quarter and a fifty 
> cent piece. 
> 
> If you'd like them to be able to see some beautiful pictures of bean seeds, 
> point them toward 
> http://www.vermontbean.com 
> 
> Some I really like are: 
> Jacob's Cattle 
> https://www.vermontbean.com/vbsite/vbsiteviewproduct.aspx?ProductID=6724 
> 
> Swedish Brown 
> https://www.vermontbean.com/vbsite/vbsiteviewproduct.aspx?ProductID=7011 
> 
> Christmas Lima 
> http://www.beanbag.net/bc5.html 
> 
> > This got me to thinking, maybe I could mention other foods that we know 
> > that we don't eat in the bean form necessarily, but are beans 
> nevertheless. 
> 
> 
> 
> > So far I've come up with cocoa, coffee, carob and tamarind, but I will 
> > probably leave tamarind out. What other bean products do we use that we 
> > don't see as a bean? (I've got all the soybean products covered.) 
> 
> 
> >Hey, maybe I could talk about Castor beans and have them all sample Castor 
> Oil, would I be a popular teacher or what!?! 
> 
> If you do, please talk about how very poisonous the bean is and perhaps 
> current ways various terror groups are trying to use it. 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Ricinus+communis 
> 
> >They are actually listed in the nut and seed section: flax, pumpkin, 
> sesame, 
> sunflower, almond, brazil nut, cashew, chestnut, hazelnut, macadamia, 
> peanut, pecan, pine nuts, walnut. 
> I will cover legume, drope, and other variations in definition. 
> 
> Here are you focusing on nuts and seeds that are protein oriented? Or would 
> you want to include things like mustard seed and corn (or would you put that 
> in your grain section?). 
> 
> Sharon 
> gordonse at one.net 
> 
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