Featured Cooking Bean: Cherokee Trail of Tears

[elkhound]

https://happyacres.blog/2015/02/04/featured-cooking-bean-cherokee-trail-of-tears/

This year I am on a mission to cook and eat as many different varieties of beans as possible. This is the first in a series about my observations about those beans.


I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I truly love food that has a story associated with it. The food and the story are then permanently linked together. I think that is one of the many things that is lost when we let others grow our food for us. Food then becomes a commodity, one without heart or history. And often without much flavor or nutrition, though that is a topic for another day. The Cherokee Trail of Tears bean has plenty of both history and flavor, which I think makes it all the more special.

 

[DWinCO]

I grow them most every year...love them!

 

[d_marsh]

That's awesome. Keep us posted.

 

[elkhound]

That's awesome. Keep us posted.

not my blog post...but i have grown them twice now and have some that go to mature for greenbeans to eat...fibrous pods....so after all this rain gets by me i will pick them and shell and cook. they wont be totally dry but no reason to wait and then rehydrate them when i can cook them now and enjoy.

i have another great big bean i grow that awesome that has no name..the old lady had them called them a october bean..they are not...she grew them her entire life and gave to my family over 20 years ago. She died back then in her 90's.

try making 3 sisters soup...corn,beans and squash..its fantastic...use butternuts,hominy and favorite bean in beef broth...ad lots of spices.

 

[elkhound]

Last October i harvested a fair amount of Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans. I threshed them with an old snow shovel handle in a 5 gallon bucket and then winnowed them in front of a fan.

@d_marsh