Published On Jul 15, 2013 Uploaded by Judith Kingsbury Hi, I'm Judith Kingsbury from savvy vegetarian dot com. Today I'm going to show you basic bean cooking, with kidney beans and black eyed peas. Let's start with kidney beans. Kidney beans are very hard and they take long soaking, 12 - 24 hours, and it depends on the age of the bean how long they have to be cooked. When you first start soaking them, they get kind of wrinkly, then they get less and less wrinkly until finally there are no more wrinkles and they are double in size.

If you want to be a healthy vegan, you really must add these power-packed little guys to your vegan diet. Hubby Jeff and I were vegan for MANY years before we began to understand the importance of eating this great source of protein on a regular basis.

Open bags of various beans So how did we go from not eating ANY beans to learning how to cook them in a pot, and then later moving on to the 'big time' by using a pressure cooker?

Well just like you, perhaps, we started out buying the canned stuff, which was quick and easy and at least got us on the road to eating and cooking with these little nutritional powerhouses. But after a while we made the switch to cooking up our own.