What will make beans & rice taste good? What are you stocking that you don't like? Tell us about it.

Fry onion in olive oil with salt and pepper, add can of diced tomatoes, can of black beans. Serve over white rice.
Can add 1/2 ramen noodle seasoning packet to rice and bean mix.

There's also curry powder if you're broke. Guaranteed to stretch across many meals.

Fat.
Buttered rice.
Buttered beans.

Or whatever fat works with your cuisine.

Get a rice cooker and a crockpot. Get the proportion of water right. Don’t try to cook fancy while you are scorching beans and ruining rice.

Seventies cookbook Laurels Kitchen is the very best.

Indian idlis are steamed rice and bean flour cakes, very like cold hominy grits, or a rice cake.

Felafel is great too.

Or roast chickpeas to eat like peanuts.

Mrs. Dash. Has no salt and just about every other spice and no MSG. Accent for MSG. And add salt.

Think of different styles of dishes...

Mexican beans & rice.

Oriental beans & rice.

Bean & rice soup...baked beans...humus.

But to be honest...it's easier to find different things to do with pasta.

EVERGLADES SEASONING

This is the Best tasting and most versatile seasoning I've ever tasted

You can season 4 dishes with it and serve them together. It highlights the natural flavors of the dish, making it impossibly delicious.

Everybody should have a jar of this in their pantry.

These people don’t know how to cook. Roast a pork. Stew a pork. Boil a ham hock. Save the broth, drippings, and some grease. Put all that flavorful nummyness in your rice and beans instead of water. Flavor to taste, ;-). Or, you can do the same with beef, or even turkey. You need the richness that comes from the bones and knuckles otherwise beans are dry and rice is tasteless. Tabasco helps a lot. Saracha is California piss.

Tomatoes, hot peppers, and onions.

Thank you for that, Miss Cleo. Sounds good! However this thread is about cooking beans and rice from scratch, unfortunately. It will be a necessary and frequent dish when the shortages from the flooded farmlands hit the supermarket.

Ever cook beans from scratch? How about pinto beans?

chick peas are good for a bit of extra protein over beans

houmous / hummus - can be made with chick peas and olive oil. perhaps falael too.

tomato sauce is a base for a lot of dishes, it would take ages to boil tomatoes enough to reduce them to a sauce or puree / paste, maybe its a good idea to buy some tomato puree / paste or tomato powder if its cheap enough.

the pataks sauces even 2 chilli pictures is bareable not realy hot, thouh this varoies by person and you could always use less of the hot inredients in proportion to the others.

stocking up on oli seems logical too,wether that be olive oil or others.

for below links sainsburys is a uk supermarket.

i used to buy pasta ready made from the supermarket and it was delicious, it had spirit vinear, white wine vinegar etc in it made real tasty. here it is...

Sainsbury's Cheese & Tomato Pasta Salad 300g
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ingredients listed

i hear balsamic vinegar adds a lot of flavor to anything too.

i also bought pasta with pine nuts in that was delicious, pine nuts are expesive though, you could stock up o cheaper nuts... i cant find the one i bought but this is similar...

Sainsbury's Basil & Pine Nut Margherite, Taste the Difference 250g
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ingredients listed

idk how easy it would be to make macoroni out of macoroni and dry cheese powder? or some other cheese that stores well. or even make cheese rom milk apparently mozzarella is easy.

pesto is nice, not sure how you make it.

mozarella, basil leaves, tomato and pesto make a great sandwich filler

eggs without the film (the hen adds a protective layer called “bloom” to the egg) on freshly laid by a chicken store much much longer than eggs you buy from shops with the bloom removed.

Everybody, almost, has included onions - that's a good thing. A very good thing. I like onions and they do a world of good for a lot of foods!

Tomatoes I can see, yes.

Hot peppers - sorry - I have a wimpy set of tastebuds. No pepper, no peppers except green. It's okay to laugh at me. I don't blame you!

Who carries it? I've not seen it here. Would like to try it. Only available here on Amazon? Ew. Gotta be somewhere else in the Pacific Northwest!

BBQ sauce

Ever cook beans from scratch? How about pinto beans?

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I think I've only had pinto beans in chili.

I have cooked white beans from scratch, when almost done I added ketchup, molassas, onion powder, and a can of bushed baked beans (I cheated...but it worked).

The extra "gravy" in the can of beans really added alot to my beans!

Edit...nope, I've had cold pinto beans in a salad.

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I do every week. I buy 20 lb sacks of rice and pinto beans.

I bring 3 cups of beans to a boil, thn let them soak overnight. Drain and cook until tender. Drain again.
Add a quart of tomatoes, a chopped yellow onion, and 10 ground hot peppers. Salt and black pepper.

Cook for at least a half hour.

Garlic powder.

Garlic, lemon and Tabasco :)

Beans in a crock pot.

No draining etc...

Wonderful post! Thank you so much!

Stocking up on oil - absolutely! Olive or coconut or all of the good ones. We'll need the nutrients and the healthy fats, as well as need them for preparing food.

In the past I lived in the country and had chickens, ducks, etc. I've seen them add the "bloom" though I didn't know the name for it. What a wise post you have made! I was reading yesterday about preserving eggs and one direction was specifically not to wash first. Now I know why! Thanks!

Macaroni and cheese made with powdered cheese would be easy - add powdered milk to the cheese powder, don't pour off quite all the cooking water from the pasta, then mix in the cheese/milk mixture. Would be heavenly to those starved for "normal" foods and tastes.

Love the foods available to you in your UK store - and all the references in this thread to vinegar use - vinegar is so healthy, providing minerals we need.

Thank you for all the suggestions and advice - you are right on top of things! Hope you will join us in Thread: Practical Prepping Protocol even if Poor (Page 202) You would definitely have great ideas for us, and we might have a few for you!

They absorb all the water cooked that way? But a person would have to be precise about how much water and how many cups beans - I have no idea.

Thank you for the idea!

Lemon? First time I've read that suggestion - please tell us what the lemon does for beans.

Luv me sum garlic!!!

I had not heard or read of bringing them to a boil before soaking overnight. Why do you do this?

How much, in cups, does three dry cups beans make when done?

Butter, cumin, cilantro. :)

Onion too

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Molasses would be a nice addition - I like that idea. Not a bad thing to add a can of something if it makes the dish better!

So - I had not even thought about bean salads - tell us more, please. That might be an easier way to get them down, especially in summer.

My gosh, buy sone smoked back bone or ham hock ( Walmart is the best in my area) . A onion and a stick of celery ( both optional ) some salt -n- pepper 1 lb to 1.5 lbs Great northern (my 1st choice) , pinto 2nd, lima beans 3 choice.
Cook on beans with water on high in a crock pot 5 -6 hours. a cup of rice in a rice cooker and my family eats hot beans and rice ready to eat all day!
We eat this once a week during winder as its ready all day for lunch, after school and again dinner. My kids love it!