beans
M&S House Shaker Salad
Pasta, cucumber, peas and beans with a creamy oregano and garlic dressing. The pasta in this salad looks like tortellini but it’s actually hollow. It’s good and chewy, but I haven’t figured out the obsession here with egg pasta. Regular pasta would be just as nice in this salad and would help reduce the fat […]
Cully & Sully Chilli con Carne Hot Pot
“A mighty Mexican chilli con carne made with Irish beef, rice, beans & gentle spices.” Chili isn’t a Mexican dish at all, but Mexican-American. The primordial chili of Texas contains beef, chiles (both dried and fresh), onions, cumin and little else. The “San Antonio Chili Stand” at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago introduced the […]
M&S Edamame Soya Bean Salad
“Edamame soya bean salad with a chili & coriander dressing” This is a great salad. The veggies (sugar-snap peas, broad beans, green beans and, of course, edamame) are crisp, flavorful and sweet. The dressing is gingery and spicy and not too oily. I’ve nothing bad to say about this salad except that it’s hard to […]
Tesco Chilli con Carne
“Juicy minced British beef, kidney beans and red pepper bubbling in a warm and spicy chipotle sauce, served with long grain rice.” “We’re proud about the ingredients in our food… We use roasted cumin and coriander in our chilli con carne to give the sauce a more rounded flavor. Green jalapeño chilli adds an extra […]
Levi’s Caribbean Hot Chilli Beef with Seasoned Rice
“Cooked marinated beef in a hot spicy sauce served with cooked seasoned rice.” This meal is one of my favorites. The description doesn’t do it justice. It has more beans than this soup despite them being mentioned only in the ingredients and makes better use of squash than this meal. It’s spicy, though not “3 […]
Supervalu Supreme Tuscan Style Bean Fresh Soup
“Crushed tomatoes with black eye beans, red kidney beans, balsamic vinegar and a hint of red chilli’s [sic].” This is one sweet bean soup. I had a sweet bean soup at the end of a Chinese wedding banquet once that was meant to be sweet–it was the dessert. This soup is needlessly sweet. One serving, […]
Tesco Bean & Red Pepper Couscous
“Rehydrated couscous, borlotti beans, chickpeas and red peppers in a mustard dressing.” Not an auspicious beginning. It’s dry and gummy at the same time. The dressing is undetectable. I want this to be good because vegetarian sides (other than slaw) are rare at my Tesco. It even has beans, another rarity, but not many. It’s […]
