Beans that will change your menu!
Rancho Gordo has an amazing selection of gorgeous, delicious heirloom dried beans. These are not your everyday grocery store beans, that might have been sitting on the shelf for a couple of years. Their beans are selected to provide a wide variety of high quality beans, for use in all kinds of recipes. The beans are all of recent harvest, reducing the cook time since they are fresher. There are good descriptions for the different beans on the website, to help you navigate your selection of beans for the types of recipes you prefer. The website also provides a lot of recipes, and there are “fan club” groups on social media, so customers can share ideas for dishes and cooking advice. I have found the beans to be so fresh that I save a few out of the packages to plant in my vegetable garden, with a very high germination rate. The cost per pound are more than grocery store dried beans, but come out to be about the same as buying canned beans - with much better flavor and texture. For our vegetarian family, dried beans are an everyday ingredient in our daily meals. Rancho Gordo beans make what many consider to be a mundane food into an exciting cooking and eating experience.