The wonders...of a pressure cooker.

Dried beans are prevalent and cheap here. But to cook beans takes a lot of time. People generally start cooking beans at 9:00 for a 12:00-1:00 lunch. If you soak them overnight, it takes off 2 hours but one’s still cooking for an hour and a half. Once we bought a kilo of black beans, soaked them, cooked them all at one time and froze them in 2 cup increments. That worked so well, that we decided to try it again with butter beans. Then we discovered a pressure cooker. Instead of having to cook them for an hour and half after soaking, all we did was soak them overnight, cook them for 10 minutes and wa-la! Done beans, 8 2-cup bags of beans in the freezer ready to be used! Hurray!