More Fabulous Beans: Meatless Homestyle, Gourmet and International Recipes [Paperback]

Barb Bloomfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2004

Learn how to use a variety of different beans in a medley of healthful dishes that will be just right-whether cooking for two or a crowd. Includes specific information and cooking tips on over fourteen different beans.

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About the Author

Barb Bloomfield is the author of Soups On! and co-author of Flax-The Super Food. She works for a publishing company, runs a vegetarian bed and breakfast, and is a recipe developer and tester.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN) (February 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157067146X
• ISBN-13: 978-1570671463
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,231,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A revised edition, not a sequel, August 2, 2004

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This review is from: More Fabulous Beans: Meatless Homestyle, Gourmet and International Recipes (Paperback)

The title of this book will lead the shopper to believe that it is a sequel to Barb Bloomfield's excellent book "Fabulous Beans".

In reality it is a revised edition. Many of the recipies in "More Fabulous Beans" are the recipies from "Fabulous Beans".

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a dissapointment, February 19, 2007

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This review is from: More Fabulous Beans: Meatless Homestyle, Gourmet and International Recipes (Paperback)

I really wanted to like this book. I love beans, and I love the wide and wonderful variety of ways to prepare them that this book promises. I also love how the book is quietly vegan without ever uttering the word, implying a world where animal exploitation just doesn't exist. However, I just can't make these recipes turn out!

I am not an expert cook by any means, but with most of the time if you give me a good recipe I can make it turn out pretty good. Maybe I have chosen poorly, but I am now 0 for 4 with the recipes I have tried out of this book. Let me describe my experiences:

1) Pinto Bean Enchiladas - This recipe turned out bland, watery, and soggy. After conferring with some people who know enchiladas, they all agreed that the enchilada sauce portion of the recipe was out to lunch. It was edible, but not make-again category.

2) Pat's Baked Navy Beans - Edible, but a little bland and uninspiring. There are better baked bean recipes out there.

3) Curried Garbanzos - Starts off promising, but the end result is soupy and a little odd tasting. Again, there are far better garbanzo curries out there.

4) Navy Bean Balls with mushroom gravy - The bean balls were decent, despite the almost complete lack of spice, but the gravy was hideous. I couldn't even eat it.

Based on the experience of these four recipes, I find that this book has recipes that are bland, overly complicated, time consuming, and often skip over essential preparation details.

The biggest problem with this book is that the recipes sound tasty yet they just don't turn out, either from lack of skill by me, or a lack of instruction from the author. Either way, I will be sticking to my more trusted books from now on, and saving this one for when I'm feeling more adventurous than hungry.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yum!, September 8, 2009

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Greaot ideas for bean consumption. Not so good for telling us how to cook dry beans from scratch, you still have to do trial and error til you learn what works for you. Also you don't need to buy both her books because the first one is all here.