July 25, 2008

Larry’s Beans Launches Biodegradable Packaging for Coffee

 [TreeHugger] We’ve posted a few videos about the company and even included them in our Valentine’s Day Gift Guide. So when we heard the news that the company has launched biodegradable packaging for their .

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Posted at July 25, 2008 09:38 AM | Comments (0)

Beans With Cheese and Basil

 [The Budding Cook] It's so simple and tasty that I've prepared it a couple of times now using different kinds of beans each time. This isn't the most appetizing looking dish, but it tastes a lot better than it looks, fortunately.

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Posted at July 25, 2008 09:38 AM | Comments (0)

Beans With Cheese and Basil

 [The Budding Cook] It's so simple and tasty that I've prepared it a couple of times now using different kinds of beans each time. This isn't the most appetizing looking dish, but it tastes a lot better than it looks, fortunately.

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Posted at July 25, 2008 09:38 AM | Comments (0)

July 22, 2008

The bean scene: healthy refried beans

 [Eating Out Loud: Food, Cooking, Recipes & Trends] Hi Alan- I never really use a recipe for refried beans but usually just cook some onions and garlic in a little olive oil and then add the spices that you mentioned according to wim and give the whole thing a quick mashing... I do like to use black beans sometimes though.

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Posted at July 22, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

The bean scene: healthy refried beans

 [Eating Out Loud: Food, Cooking, Recipes & Trends] Hi Alan- I never really use a recipe for refried beans but usually just cook some onions and garlic in a little olive oil and then add the spices that you mentioned according to wim and give the whole thing a quick mashing... I do like to use black beans sometimes though.

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Posted at July 22, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

July COTM (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone): BEANS PLAIN and FANCY ...

 [Chowhound's Latest » Home Cooking] First, my changes: I used spinach instead of chard (that's what the market had), I used a can of Muir Glen diced tomatoes because the farmer's market doesn't have tomatoes yet, I omitted the preserved lemon, I used a mix of red and green bell pepper (recipe doesn't specify), and I used the two cans of chickpeas instead of cooking from scratch.

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Posted at July 22, 2008 09:04 AM | Comments (0)

July COTM (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone): BEANS PLAIN and FANCY ...

 [Chowhound's Latest » Home Cooking] First, my changes: I used spinach instead of chard (that's what the market had), I used a can of Muir Glen diced tomatoes because the farmer's market doesn't have tomatoes yet, I omitted the preserved lemon, I used a mix of red and green bell pepper (recipe doesn't specify), and I used the two cans of chickpeas instead of cooking from scratch.

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Posted at July 22, 2008 09:04 AM | Comments (0)

July 18, 2008

French Beans,Anyone?

[Virtual Health Guide] Methods: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.Blanch the string beans in a large pot of boiling salted water for just four minutes.Drain immediately and immerse in a large bowl of ice water to stop the cooking.When they are cool, drain and set aside.Meanwhile, in a large bowl toss the onion and bell peppers together with two tablespoons of olive oil and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.Place in a single layer on a baking sheet and roast for about 15 minutes, tossing with a spatula from time to time to be sure the vegetables roast evenly.Just before serving, reheat the string beans in a large saute pan drizzled with a little olive oil.Sprinkle with salt and pepper and arrange on a platter.Spoon the roasted vegetables over the string beans and serve hot or at room temperature.

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Posted at July 18, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

French Beans,Anyone?

[Virtual Health Guide] Methods: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.Blanch the string beans in a large pot of boiling salted water for just four minutes.Drain immediately and immerse in a large bowl of ice water to stop the cooking.When they are cool, drain and set aside.Meanwhile, in a large bowl toss the onion and bell peppers together with two tablespoons of olive oil and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.Place in a single layer on a baking sheet and roast for about 15 minutes, tossing with a spatula from time to time to be sure the vegetables roast evenly.Just before serving, reheat the string beans in a large saute pan drizzled with a little olive oil.Sprinkle with salt and pepper and arrange on a platter.Spoon the roasted vegetables over the string beans and serve hot or at room temperature.

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Posted at July 18, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

My conversion to dried beans

[Slashfood] Several times a month I make a pot of beans overnight, put half back in the pot with meat and veggies for chile or beans and rice or something similar to cook during the day, then put the rest in the fridge to use later in the week in a lighter dish. The crockpot method takes a lot of the nuisance waiting time out of the process!

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Posted at July 18, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

My conversion to dried beans

[Slashfood] Several times a month I make a pot of beans overnight, put half back in the pot with meat and veggies for chile or beans and rice or something similar to cook during the day, then put the rest in the fridge to use later in the week in a lighter dish. The crockpot method takes a lot of the nuisance waiting time out of the process!

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Posted at July 18, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

June 20, 2008

Three Bean Salad with Spring Herbs

[Untitled] Thank god my parents weren’t as impassioned about three bean salad as they were about mashed potatoes (a dish I’ll have to revisit here sometime, because even now I gag on it), or I’d still be sitting at that splintered table while a whole new generation of kids went diving into the pool.

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Posted at June 20, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Delicious, Delicious Pork and Beans

 [On the Tenure Track] There’s nothing trainwreck-of-poor-taste about Pork and Beans. Something tells me that Weezer meant to include nearly every star of the Internet.

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Posted at June 20, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

Delicious, Delicious Pork and Beans

 [On the Tenure Track] There’s nothing trainwreck-of-poor-taste about Pork and Beans. Something tells me that Weezer meant to include nearly every star of the Internet.

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Posted at June 20, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

June 10, 2008

Bush Beans

 [Lovely Plantings] TIP: I plant the seeds no later than January, and in 5-gallon pots. I water them three times a week, and feed them with MiracleGro Liquafeed once a month. The Liquafeed bottle is attached to a plastic feeder/nozzle device (”Advance Feeder”), and then attached to my water hose.

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Posted at June 10, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Cambridge Cooks: Howard's Baked Beans

 [Cambridge Buzz] Any combination of beans works so experiment with lots of different combinations. Vegetarians and Vegans can adjust the recipe by eliminating the bacon and using soy butter.

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Posted at June 10, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Cambridge Cooks: Howard's Baked Beans

 [Cambridge Buzz] Any combination of beans works so experiment with lots of different combinations. Vegetarians and Vegans can adjust the recipe by eliminating the bacon and using soy butter.

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Posted at June 10, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

June 06, 2008

Using Beans Binding to Search in a Table

 [java.net Weblogs] We will create a binding between the rowSorter property of the master table in the example in my previous entries and a text field that I've just added for the search string. For this binding we will need a binding converter so that the table knows how to respond to the search string.

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Posted at June 06, 2008 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

Barbecued Baked Beans

 [BigOven.com - Recipe Raves] To Make Ahead: After cooking, the beans can be cooled to room temperature and refrigerated, wrapping tightly in plastic wrap, for up to 4 days. Reheat over medium-low heat before serving.

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Posted at June 06, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

Barbecued Baked Beans

 [BigOven.com - Recipe Raves] To Make Ahead: After cooking, the beans can be cooled to room temperature and refrigerated, wrapping tightly in plastic wrap, for up to 4 days. Reheat over medium-low heat before serving.

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Posted at June 06, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

June 03, 2008

pork and beans

[sleepinginmyhead] further to my post about weezer, the video for their latest single 'pork and beans' has surfaced and it's a peach. It's a fairly obvious premise and very very weezer, but the execution is brilliant. If you have watched any 'viral' video ...

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Posted at June 03, 2008 09:04 AM | Comments (0)

pork and beans

[sleepinginmyhead] further to my post about weezer, the video for their latest single 'pork and beans' has surfaced and it's a peach. It's a fairly obvious premise and very very weezer, but the execution is brilliant. If you have watched any 'viral' video ...

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Posted at June 03, 2008 09:04 AM | Comments (0)

BBQ rice, beans and chicken dish...a recipe by me.

 [One Mans trip to the Half] most times when I list my meals from the previous day I will say "3oz chicken breast, 3/4 cup white rice, 1/2 cup black beans, broccoli" now that just seems plain to me but its how it gets put into the Excel sheet that I keep because its just to count the calories not really which recipe I ate that particular day. from time to time I will list it how it was eaten and sometimes I get an email or comment asking how to make something, welp here is the BBQ rice and beans with shredded chicken that I have been making lately.

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Posted at June 03, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

BBQ rice, beans and chicken dish...a recipe by me.

 [One Mans trip to the Half] most times when I list my meals from the previous day I will say "3oz chicken breast, 3/4 cup white rice, 1/2 cup black beans, broccoli" now that just seems plain to me but its how it gets put into the Excel sheet that I keep because its just to count the calories not really which recipe I ate that particular day. from time to time I will list it how it was eaten and sometimes I get an email or comment asking how to make something, welp here is the BBQ rice and beans with shredded chicken that I have been making lately.

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Posted at June 03, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

May 16, 2008

Albums by artist Baked Beans

 [Last updates in our music collection - lavamp3.com] Bean Me Up, Scotty Genre: Dance Year: 0 Two Beans Or Not Two Beans Genre: Dance Year: 0 Baked Beans Genre: Dance Year: 1994.

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Posted at May 16, 2008 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

Albums by artist Baked Beans

 [Last updates in our music collection - lavamp3.com] Bean Me Up, Scotty Genre: Dance Year: 0 Two Beans Or Not Two Beans Genre: Dance Year: 0 Baked Beans Genre: Dance Year: 1994.

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Posted at May 16, 2008 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

Beans, beans, good for your ...

 [A Man's Gotta Eat] You sometimes hear folks say that pork meat-infused beans and cornbread is "peasant food." Sorry, but I disagree with that assertion. Indeed, when I'm eating a pot of beans, I think of myself as eating like a king.

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Posted at May 16, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Beans, beans, good for your ...

 [A Man's Gotta Eat] You sometimes hear folks say that pork meat-infused beans and cornbread is "peasant food." Sorry, but I disagree with that assertion. Indeed, when I'm eating a pot of beans, I think of myself as eating like a king.

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May 13, 2008

White Beans Oreganata Recipe @ CDKitchen

 [New Recipes at CDKitchen] Recipe Snippet: Sort and wash beans; place in a large Dutch oven. Cover with water to 2 inches above beans; cover and let stand 8 hours. Drain beans. Combine beans, 6 cups water, and ne... click title to view recipe.

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Posted at May 13, 2008 09:15 AM | Comments (0)

White Beans Oreganata Recipe @ CDKitchen

 [New Recipes at CDKitchen] Recipe Snippet: Sort and wash beans; place in a large Dutch oven. Cover with water to 2 inches above beans; cover and let stand 8 hours. Drain beans. Combine beans, 6 cups water, and ne... click title to view recipe.

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Posted at May 13, 2008 09:15 AM | Comments (0)

Sakurai to spill beans on what makes games fun

[Nintendo Wii Fanboy] Filed under: News. The obvious choice aside, we can't think of many game designers who are better qualified than Masahiro Sakurai to discuss how to make fun videogames. Which is a good job, really, because the Smash Bros. and Kirby ...

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Posted at May 13, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

May 02, 2008

What is EJB architecture(components)?

 [Untitled] Entity beans: Entity beans are enterprise beans that contain persistent data and that can be saved in various persistent data stores. Each entity bean carries its own identity.

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Posted at May 02, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

What is EJB architecture(components)?

 [Untitled] Entity beans: Entity beans are enterprise beans that contain persistent data and that can be saved in various persistent data stores. Each entity bean carries its own identity.

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Posted at May 02, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Modals, Negation, and Caviar and Beans

 [Literal-Minded] The next step in Siegel’s analysis is the observation that you can even coordinate tenseless sentences: Ward eat caviar and his guest eat dried beans?! All that remains is to assign the modal a semantics that applies to entire propositions (not just predicates), and a syntactic category that allows it to be shoehorned in just past the first subject, regardless of whether the clause is coordinated with another one or not.

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Posted at May 02, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Modals, Negation, and Caviar and Beans

 [Literal-Minded] The next step in Siegel’s analysis is the observation that you can even coordinate tenseless sentences: Ward eat caviar and his guest eat dried beans?! All that remains is to assign the modal a semantics that applies to entire propositions (not just predicates), and a syntactic category that allows it to be shoehorned in just past the first subject, regardless of whether the clause is coordinated with another one or not.

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Posted at May 02, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

April 25, 2008

What to do with too many cans of refried beans?

 [Chowhound's Latest » Home Cooking] I love them at breakfast as in scramble eggs with chorizo, potatoes fried with onions and mild chilis and topped with Mexican cheese, and hot beans in a side dish. Asfor your soup idea, I suppose you could use them as a basis for a bean soup or to thicken a vegetable soup.

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Posted at April 25, 2008 09:37 AM | Comments (0)

What to do with too many cans of refried beans?

 [Chowhound's Latest » Home Cooking] I love them at breakfast as in scramble eggs with chorizo, potatoes fried with onions and mild chilis and topped with Mexican cheese, and hot beans in a side dish. Asfor your soup idea, I suppose you could use them as a basis for a bean soup or to thicken a vegetable soup.

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Posted at April 25, 2008 09:37 AM | Comments (0)

Basil Buttered Beans

[RecipeFeed.Com - Beans and Grains Recipes] REVISED: the original recipe called for 2 T butter or margarine melted. In a saucepan, combine beans, onion, celery and water.

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Posted at April 25, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

Basil Buttered Beans

[RecipeFeed.Com - Beans and Grains Recipes] REVISED: the original recipe called for 2 T butter or margarine melted. In a saucepan, combine beans, onion, celery and water.

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Posted at April 25, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

April 22, 2008

Constraints on Beans

 [Middleware Technologies [MCA II Yr, Anna University] by Roy Antony Arnold] EJB cannot start new threads or use thread synchronization primitives. Container is responsible for creating and managing new bean instances.

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Posted at April 22, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

Constraints on Beans

 [Middleware Technologies [MCA II Yr, Anna University] by Roy Antony Arnold] EJB cannot start new threads or use thread synchronization primitives. Container is responsible for creating and managing new bean instances.

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Posted at April 22, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

Basic Bean Soup

[RecipeFeed.Com - Beans and Grains Recipes] 104 mg cal Hint: Pinto, black, navy or other hearty beans may be used. Bouillon, bean cooking liquid or a combination may be used for vegetable stock.

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Posted at April 22, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

April 01, 2008

Beans, Beans, And More Beans

[country-yall.com] At the University of Illinois, Extensions’ Darrel Good says soybean supplies should be able to meet the demand, “If 74.8 million acres are planted, harvested acreage might be near 73.8 million. With a national average yield near 42.5 bushels, the 2008 crop would total about 3.14 billion bushels, 115 million more than the level of consumption expected during the current marketing year.

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Posted at April 01, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Beans, Beans, And More Beans

[country-yall.com] At the University of Illinois, Extensions’ Darrel Good says soybean supplies should be able to meet the demand, “If 74.8 million acres are planted, harvested acreage might be near 73.8 million. With a national average yield near 42.5 bushels, the 2008 crop would total about 3.14 billion bushels, 115 million more than the level of consumption expected during the current marketing year.

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Posted at April 01, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

No more ”˜beans in the teens’? US farmers plan more soy, less corn

 [Commodity Corner] American farmers are chilling on planting corn, or at least Monday’s USDA data points to a backlash against the overplanting of corn in 2007. So does this mean the ethanol promise is beginning to fade?

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Posted at April 01, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

March 21, 2008

Beans Family Update!

 [The Adventures of (In)Fertile Frank] on TLC). Our evenings involve a routine of heating pads, ice cream, and the dreaded maternity fashion show as Mrs.

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Posted at March 21, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Extraordinary Chocolate Covered Espresso Coffee Beans (5lb) By Koppers

[Chocolate Tasting] Perfect for any occasion, Kopper’s Chocolate Espresso Coffee Beans are great on top of desserts and ice cream, in coffee drinks or eaten by the handful! Kopper’s Chocolate Covered Espresso Coffee Beans are Kosher certified and parve.

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Posted at March 21, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

Extraordinary Chocolate Covered Espresso Coffee Beans (5lb) By Koppers

[Chocolate Tasting] Perfect for any occasion, Kopper’s Chocolate Espresso Coffee Beans are great on top of desserts and ice cream, in coffee drinks or eaten by the handful! Kopper’s Chocolate Covered Espresso Coffee Beans are Kosher certified and parve.

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Posted at March 21, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

March 14, 2008

Bikes, Beans & Bordeaux

 [Tasty Fever!] Bordeaux had intrigued me when I passed by the little strip mall the restaurant was nestled in, or rather, going to be nestled in.  At the time I had noticed it, the cafe was still in the process of “coming soon!”, so I was sort of waiting until I had seen it was open for business.  Sometimes, the time it takes for a restaurant to open can be lengthy, but it didn’t seem so with Bikes, Beans & Bordeaux.  I believe it was sometime earlier this week or last week that I had seen its little “Open”

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Posted at March 14, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Bikes, Beans & Bordeaux

 [Tasty Fever!] Bordeaux had intrigued me when I passed by the little strip mall the restaurant was nestled in, or rather, going to be nestled in.  At the time I had noticed it, the cafe was still in the process of “coming soon!”, so I was sort of waiting until I had seen it was open for business.  Sometimes, the time it takes for a restaurant to open can be lengthy, but it didn’t seem so with Bikes, Beans & Bordeaux.  I believe it was sometime earlier this week or last week that I had seen its little “Open”

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Posted at March 14, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Eat Balck Beans

[Everyday health and beauty] Also, black bean soup will nourishes our eyes. On the other hand, growing children and pregnant or lactating mothers will highly benefits from the rich iron and folic acid from this nutritious black beans.

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Posted at March 14, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

Eat Balck Beans

[Everyday health and beauty] Also, black bean soup will nourishes our eyes. On the other hand, growing children and pregnant or lactating mothers will highly benefits from the rich iron and folic acid from this nutritious black beans.

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Posted at March 14, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

March 11, 2008

Weekly Salads 8 and 9: Fava Beans with Pecorino and Parsley ...

 [Hot.Sour.Salty.Sweet. And Umami] Michigan is great if you don’t like the weather just wait 6 months and your basement will turn into a pool. speaking of flooded basements I was thinking about you and yours last night and I wanted to let you know that if you need help digging a trench this spring let me know, we can do that and plant some veggies too.

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Posted at March 11, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

Weekly Salads 8 and 9: Fava Beans with Pecorino and Parsley ...

 [Hot.Sour.Salty.Sweet. And Umami] Michigan is great if you don’t like the weather just wait 6 months and your basement will turn into a pool. speaking of flooded basements I was thinking about you and yours last night and I wanted to let you know that if you need help digging a trench this spring let me know, we can do that and plant some veggies too.

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Posted at March 11, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

Growing Borlotti Beans

[Miles Collins] That was annoying, I love borlottis, the colour of the pods look wonderful in the summer sun and the speckled beans inside are creamy and delicious fresh or dried. I always like to take a basket of them into the summerhouse where I sit and shell them with a fortifying gin and tonic for company.

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Posted at March 11, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Growing Borlotti Beans

[Miles Collins] That was annoying, I love borlottis, the colour of the pods look wonderful in the summer sun and the speckled beans inside are creamy and delicious fresh or dried. I always like to take a basket of them into the summerhouse where I sit and shell them with a fortifying gin and tonic for company.

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Posted at March 11, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

February 26, 2008

Sack Lunch: Black Beans and Rice

 [Serious Eats] My boss used to tease me when I would bring black beans and rice to work for lunch. He thought, as far as I can tell, that this was my subtle way of asking for a raise, but I had no ulterior motives: I am devoted to beans and rice.

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Sack Lunch: Black Beans and Rice

 [Serious Eats] My boss used to tease me when I would bring black beans and rice to work for lunch. He thought, as far as I can tell, that this was my subtle way of asking for a raise, but I had no ulterior motives: I am devoted to beans and rice.

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Posted at February 26, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Adventures in Gender Prediction

 [Spilling the Beans] Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on a quest to test out a litany of gender prediction techniques, both scientific and unscientific, in preparation for my 18-week ultrasound. We knew that we would try to find out the baby’s gender if we could, and I thought it would be interesting to assess which methods proved accurate and which did not.

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Posted at February 26, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

February 01, 2008

Five Bags of Magic Beans for Pau Gasol

 [3 Shades of Blue - A Memphis Grizzlies Blog] Now everyone knows the Cleveland is in desperate need of a point guard and although Andre Miller does not shoot like Mike Bibby, his contract is a lot more attractive. Philadelphia has already expressed a need to get some post scoring next to Dalembert and Sam along with bulky Reggie Evans would be good compliments to Gasol.

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Posted at February 01, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

init bean (from spring 2.0.2 spring-framework-2.5-with-dependencies)

 [Spring Framework Support Forums] PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [org.springframework.context.support.DelegatingMess ageSource] to required type [org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableReso urceBundleMessageSource] for property 'msgResource'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type [org.springframework.context.support.DelegatingMess ageSource] to required type [org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableReso urceBundleMessageSource] for property 'msgResource': no matching editors or conversion strategy found

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Posted at February 01, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

January 11, 2007

Meth Coffee - My Salvation

[Ignat Drozdov] Luckily my work-place at that time had a free assortment of gourmet coffee which I gladly devoured 5-7 times daily. Today, I can’t function without at least two cups in the morning.

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Posted at January 11, 2007 12:56 AM | Comments (0)

July 31, 2006

The 4M’s of Espresso

[http://www.brewed-coffee.com] The first factor is Macinazione or the proper grinding of the beans.  Great baristas in fact will only grind beans for an espresso right before using them. 30 seconds after they have been ground, the beans are already too stale for a good espresso.

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Posted at July 31, 2006 12:55 AM | Comments (0)

July 15, 2006

Updated coffee beans news - chocolate covered coffee beans

[fresh coffee beans information] gourmet flavored coffee gourmet flavored coffee online. If your goal is to buy gourmet coffee at bargain prices or your biggest desire is enjoying freshly brewed coffee, then take advantage of the chocolate covered coffee beans material that we have pulled together.

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Posted at July 15, 2006 12:59 AM | Comments (0)

Updated coffee beans news - chocolate covered coffee beans

[fresh coffee beans information] gourmet flavored coffee gourmet flavored coffee online. If your goal is to buy gourmet coffee at bargain prices or your biggest desire is enjoying freshly brewed coffee, then take advantage of the chocolate covered coffee beans material that we have pulled together.

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June 23, 2006

Coffee Roaster

[All Coffee Recipes] Coffee Roaster Originally uploaded by Aaron Gustafson. Coffee, Coffee Roaster, Coffee Beans Technorati Tags: Coffee, Coffee Roaster, Coffee Beans...

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Posted at June 23, 2006 12:53 AM | Comments (0)

Coffee Roaster

[All Coffee Recipes] Coffee Roaster Originally uploaded by Aaron Gustafson. Coffee, Coffee Roaster, Coffee Beans Technorati Tags: Coffee, Coffee Roaster, Coffee Beans...

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June 21, 2006

information on coffee beans - green coffee beans

[fresh coffee beans information] If the creator of the page tries to stuff coffee gourmet gift basket in more than is needed then the page may not obtain a good ranking and you may never see it. Webmasters should only use those coffee gourmet gift basket and like phrases that are also used in the copy of the page and is the true subject of the web page.

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June 19, 2006

On the roasting trail again

 [Abstract Gourmet] I seem to waver on and off between roasting my own and buying beans from others. I find my own technique doesn’t produce the results as well as the beans I buy from local roasters (well mainly 5 Senses).

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Posted at June 19, 2006 01:01 AM | Comments (0)

November 02, 2005

Ahhh, coffee

 [Jiggle The Handle] They are just down the road in Westborough Mass, but I do mail order with them and they make some great coffee beans. I used to order beans from Coffee Revolution in Ottawa Ontario, but I started to have some problems with the order, so we tried a bunch of other mail order and local places and settled on Armeno..

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Posted at November 02, 2005 02:02 PM | Comments (0)

September 03, 2005

Coffee News: Risk to coffee stocks after hurricane supports price rises

[The Cooking News - Daily recipes, cooking and wine news from around the web. We find the latest stuff for you!] Reports estimate that New Orleans is currently storing some 1.6 million 60 kilogram bags of green coffee, representing over a quarter of all US green coffee stocks. The uncertainty as to the fate of these beans has created bullish prices, with New York commodity markets seeing coffee prices rise the most in six months, a picture reflected on the London-based futures market Liffe.

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Posted at September 03, 2005 04:14 PM | Comments (0)

June 28, 2005

Please Pour Me a Cup

 [Laugh Loud and Often] Just remember, this poem is about COFFEE - nothing more; do not inject or project political ideas, religious overtones, cultural concepts, subversive undertones and/or social injustices into this poem.

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Posted at June 28, 2005 07:45 AM | Comments (0)

Cool Those Beans

 [Coffee, Tea or Blog?] We in the industry uses sample roasters which are all outfitted with a separate cooling pan built to cool the roast as quickly as possible. We watch the roast checking it with a small scoop we insert into the roasting chamber about every 15 seconds when the roast is nearing the profile we desire.

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Posted at June 28, 2005 07:44 AM | Comments (0)

Cool Those Beans

 [Coffee, Tea or Blog?] We in the industry uses sample roasters which are all outfitted with a separate cooling pan built to cool the roast as quickly as possible. We watch the roast checking it with a small scoop we insert into the roasting chamber about every 15 seconds when the roast is nearing the profile we desire.

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Posted at June 28, 2005 07:44 AM | Comments (0)

June 27, 2005

How to buy good coffee

 [Coffee, Tea or Blog?] So you’re tired of drinking the Folgers, but you’ve found out that buying “exotic” coffees is something of a crap-shoot?

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Posted at June 27, 2005 01:42 PM | Comments (0)

Three Single Origins and a Blend

 [larryhalff.com] Last month I made a brief visit to Seattle for work, and somehow found the time to visit some coffee roasters: Victrola, Lighthouse, and Vivace...

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Posted at June 27, 2005 10:37 AM | Comments (0)

Swiss Water Process

 [Coffee, Tea or Blog?] Since some of the varieties I’ve been having fun with lately are available in Swiss Water decaffeinated form, I’ve been thinking about roasting some up and seeing just how good a decaf roast I can produce…

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Posted at June 27, 2005 10:35 AM | Comments (0)

June 03, 2005

Three Single Origins and a Blend

 [larryhalff.com] Last month I made a brief visit to Seattle for work, and somehow found the time to visit some coffee roasters: Victrola, Lighthouse, and Vivace. Coincidently, Cory had been there the week prior and had brought us back a big haul of beans which included a couple of roasts from Cafe d'Arte. With all these beans, a tasting session was in order. Results are below the fold.

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Posted at June 03, 2005 07:23 AM | Comments (0)

May 25, 2005

Coffee Geishas Fetch A High Price In Panama

[The Daily Thing] But these are no kimono-clad hostesses. They are a type of coffee plant being raised here in the thousands as farmers cash in on a specialty coffee market that has flourished since a global coffee crisis hurt the quality of regular beans."

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Posted at May 25, 2005 08:08 AM | Comments (0)