A GIGANTE BEAN BAKE – Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell something delicious

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Hi there,

Have you ever used gigante beans? I was looking through some Italian cookbooks and found reference to this very large white bean. So, like Jack, I became curious about what was growing on this particular beanstalk. When the bag arrived the size was truly gigantic when compared with cannelleni beans.

So I covered these beauties in water overnight. The next day I drained them and put the beans in my slow cooker. I covered the beans with chicken stock cooked with them with an onion a couple of bay leaves for about 4 hours or until tender. I didn’t season the beans very much because my intention was to use the beans for a couple of different meals.

The bean bake that follows I used as I side dish to chicken for dinner but if you add a protein, such as roasted shrimp or sautéed sausage, it would make a fine dinner.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 lb cooked gigantic beans
  • 1 cup sautéed diced onions and carrots
  • 1 12 ounce jar of Delallo mild peppers and sauce
  • 1/4 cup of seasoned panko
  • 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese

Preparation

  • sautée the diced onions and carrots
  • in a small casserole dish combine the beans, peppers, and the carrots and onion
  • top with a combination of panko and parmesan cheese
  • bake at 350 for approximately 30 minutes

I hope you enjoy this recipe. I think it is sure to please all the giants and little Jacks who live in your home.

I purchased these beans by mail order from a company in California called Rancho Gordo, http://www.ranchogordo.com. I receive their newsletter which is very well written and full of ideas on how to prepare the beans they grow. On Friday I was reading the newsletter and the postscript touched my heart and has now made me a very loyal customer. I would like to share it with you.

​As I posted on Twitter recently, Rancho Gordo unequivocally supports sensible gun reforms. The right to carry any firearm you may fancy does not eclipse our children’s right to exist. We are at a point where companies need to be good corporate citizens and voice this out loud. This needs to be the norm, not news of another massacre.

13 responses to “A GIGANTE BEAN BAKE – Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell something delicious”

  1. Ah, what a timeous post for me, Bernadette. I’ve been looking for a ‘base’ bean recipe.

  2. CarolCooks2 – Udon Thani – Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them. I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling. Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing. This is now taking me into other areas like deforestation, chemicals and preservatives in the food chain. Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!
    CarolCooks2 says:

    This sounds delicious., Bern..I would love it but I am the only one in this house aapart from my son when he’s here who likes bean dishes..hubby eats baked beans in tomato sauce although he doesn’t like tomatoes and doesn’t like beans in anything…go figure cos I have given up…lol..But will definitely make it for me 🙂

      • CarolCooks2 – Udon Thani – Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them. I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling. Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing. This is now taking me into other areas like deforestation, chemicals and preservatives in the food chain. Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!
        CarolCooks2 says:

        Absolutely.. That might work with hubby…. 😂

  3. Darlene – British Columbia, Canada – Writer of children's stories, short stories and travel articles. https://twitter.com/#!/supermegawoman http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=201634059868404&id=631897250&ref=notif&notif_t=like#!/pages/Darlene-Foster-Writer/362236842733
    Darlene says:

    This sounds great! I will look out for some of these beans here.

  4. Delicious, indeed! They sound like butter beans, which I also love. And I appreciate the courage of the company where you found the beans. You don’t often see corporate citizens standing up for what they believe. It would be easy for them to say, “this doesn’t have anything to do with us.” But it really is an issue for all humanity. Thanks for sharing it!

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