Even cooler beans

Hey, bean lover. Let's make your cool bean stash even cooler by lasting longer without relying on hormone-disrupting BPA-lined cans. Soak a batch of beans overnight, cook them and then freeze them. Use as desired and repeat. It's pretty simple and time- and cha-ching saving. Sacramentan Erin Alderson has helpful additional tips to the process on her vegetarian website Naturally Ella. Don't be shy, check it out: http://naturallyella.com. Alderson, a Web developer, photographer and The Homemade Flour Cookbook author (Fair Winds Press, $24.99), includes a vegan section on her site, with appetite-stimulating dishes like sweet potato and chickpea stew with quinoa, and black bean tofu. Plenty of reasons to get them beans out of the freezer and get to work!