Need some advice on cooking beans

[columbine]

If you dump the soaking or parboiling water and cook the soaked/parboiled beans in fresh water, you lose some minerals but you also reduce your methane production significantly! I made bean-cabbage-millet soup (which decided it wanted to be more of a stew, which is fine with me - less spillage) and I also cooked the cabbage separately. I boiled water and then put the cut-up cabbage in the boiling water for 5 minutes, then drained it in a colander, and added it to the already-made soup. All the flavor, none of the gas!

Love, Columbine (whose day-job office is way too crowded to ignore such things)

[sasvermont]

Moesha, I added another portion of chicken broth so I ended up putting in 8 oz. of broth rather than the four.

I did not use the bean broth, if you will, and I did not wash them either. I moved the beans to another pot, after doing the saute process.

I had some of the chili just moments ago. I love the zing! I also added a bit of red powdered chili pepper. And I left out the sour cream, cause I didn't have any in the house. I love it with the sour cream.....I don't care much for regular chili....but the white chili is just the best!