Beans on toast

emeraldstar

Anyone else just LOVE beans?? and i really mean love, like v often i would rather have beans on toast than anything else i (or even my mother) would make... Beans on toast is so delicious, one of my favourite meals...on wholegrain bread of course

Anyone else feel like this or is it just me?

monkeyfudge

Yep.. it's pretty good alright... I like to get a slice of buttered toast, fold it over and use it scoop up lots of yummy beans.

Supercell

I could eat them every day !!, often have them on toast for breakfast in work.

Protein, fibre (wholemeal bread), vitamins, the breakfast of Kings.

Beans_On

could take them or leave them myself

Sauce

Fry the beans and put them on a slice of toast with brown sauce. Heaven.

spurious

Bean juice mixed in with melted butter and spread on the toast - yum.

quazzy

Yep I have to agree. Beans on toast rule.

But recently I have started to jazz them up a bit.

E.g. Adding Chilli Flakes
Frying some bacon bits and adding balsamic vinegar
Or YR
Or worcestershire sauce
substituting toast for Potato Waffles with melted cheese.

Getting hungry just thinking of all the combinations....

Shabadu

Sauté an onion and some garlic. When properly brown, add dried ground cumin, corriander, chilli and turmeric. Fry until the spices start to release their scent. Chuck in beans, (has to be Heinz), tobasco, worcestershire sauce, soy, a tiny pinch of muscavado. Cook. Have with toast. This is EVEN nicer w/ some sautéed lardons put in with the onions.

Supercell

Now thats posh beans on toast (sounds delish also), what are "lardons " ?

Shabadu

Bits of bacon.

frobisher

Shabadu wrote:

Bits of bacon.

If it's okay with you Shabadu I'll elucidate on that a little..;) .. a lardon is a small cube of pork/bacon fat that is used for "larding" (threading through lean meats like poultry to keep moist and succulent). Imagine a fat streaky rasher cut into small cubes and you have lardons. I used to work with a guy who mailed over thyme from his family's garden in France and toss it into frying lardon. Divine.

...but back to the beans! I used to run a weekend brunch in a restaurant in town and one of the conditions was that I was to never put beans on the menu. Pure snobbery I tell you!

misswex

I love beans I toast, then thing is I love sprinkling vinegar on top. Everyone who sees me doing that thinks its disgusting but I think it is delicious.

luckat

Homemade beans are delish. Soak a cup of cannelini beans and boil them until soft, then add the beans and a little of their juice into a casserole with a hunk of butter (maybe 1.5oz or 2oz), a good slop of tomato ketchup, a swoosh of Worcester sauce, a dessertspoon of good grainy mustard, a peeled onion and a few lardons. Cook in a low oven for around three hours. Winter thing, really. Lovely in everything, including stew.

sharkman

Half way through microwaving , pop a slice of cheese into the beans and complete microwaving . Stir well and enjoy .

You can also add a Chilli sauce of your choice for Chilli Cheesy Beans YUM YUM YUM

Supercell

frobisher wrote:

If it's okay with you Shabadu I'll elucidate on that a little..;) .. a lardon is a small cube of pork/bacon fat that is used for "larding" (threading through lean meats like poultry to keep moist and succulent). Imagine a fat streaky rasher cut into small cubes and you have lardons. I used to work with a guy who mailed over thyme from his family's garden in France and toss it into frying lardon. Divine.

...but back to the beans! I used to run a weekend brunch in a restaurant in town and one of the conditions was that I was to never put beans on the menu. Pure snobbery I tell you!

Thanks Shabadu and frobisher, beans on toast taken to dizzy heights!!