Friday
Oct302009
Quick healthy dinner, and you don't have to be a runner.
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 21:30 This sort of dinner is a stand by here in Rancho Maven’s kitchen, and I can tell you I’m NOT a runner. I almost always have some sort of ‘greens’ in my veggie bin. Spinach, Swiss Chard, Kale, Collard Greens and more. They’re so flexible and yummy in soups and stews.
My pantry also is fully stocked with both canned beans of all sorts and dried. Dried beans are time consuming to cook at the altitude we live at here in Reno, Nevada, so when pressed I’ll open canned beans. They provide lots of nutrition as long as you remember to empty the can into a colander and rinse the excess sodium and starches from them before adding them to your soup or stew pot.
You can add any sort of sausage.
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Quick white bean stew with Swiss chard and tomatoes
Joe Bastianich
4 servings/ Total time: 35 minutes
Low in fat but high in protein, beans are one of Bastianich’s favorite ingredients. He uses white beans here, but he also loves making this recipe with chickpeas and flat gigante beans: “The bigger and creamier the beans, the better.”
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