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Nonna makes Pasta Fagioli

I prefer my way, but this is fun. It is poverty food for hard manual laborers. Dried beans? Never. Too much hassle with no difference. Properly pronounced, Pasta Fazool.

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What IS your way?

#1 Ted on 2020-04-17 16:51 (Reply)

Without being Italian at all, I have learned to make it better than my wife's Italian grandmother.

I have never written it down, because I kinda do it by feel and taste. 50% cannelini, 50 % small shells. I'll post it sometime.

It's meant to be bland and filling for skinny Southern Italian laborer husbands.

#1.1 Bird Dog on 2020-04-17 17:31 (Reply)

If you only have dried beans and not enough time, they make up beautifully in an Instapot or other pressure cooker. I’ve been doing kidney beans for chili and navy beans for Senate Bean Soup and Pinto Beans for . . . . . Pinto Beans the side dish.

#2 Sheryl on 2020-04-18 11:13 (Reply)

Pinto beans are the easiest, I think, to cook from dried beans. I don't mean that the other beans are not good choices or that they are exceptionally difficult I simply mean that if you decide one day while out camping to cook beans you can put pinto beans in the pot/dutch oven and cook them from dry within a few hours to done. Also Pinto beans lend themselves to being flavored; they really want some chilis and beef to make them happiest. At least a few bones and some tomatoes and onions in the pot too. I like to add beef broth too and just before serving while it's still bubbling thicken it a little with some masa harina. It is a great outdoor menu choice and hard to screw up.

#2.1 OneGuy on 2020-04-18 14:12 (Reply)

The way I thicken beans is to pull out about a cup of cooked beans from the pot, and then mash them up thoroughly into a paste (you can use one of those stick blenders too), and then incorporate this back into the pot. It thickens things up nicely without adding that aftertaste of masa, which I don't always care for.

#2.1.1 Aggie on 2022-01-30 15:19 (Reply)

Good info on the Instapot, maybe I'll spring for one someday. But kidney beans in chili? Girl, you ain't from Texas.

#2.2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-01-30 19:11 (Reply)

And, for those of you who live in Bird Dog's home town, throw in a generous portion of loose Scarpelli's Italian saugage, made locally for about 100 years:

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#3 Local Boy on 2022-01-31 13:57 (Reply)

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