Kitchen Basics: Building a Vegan Pantry with Dried Beans

Beans are a very important piece to completing a vegan pantry. Today we’ll concentrate on dried beans, but we’ll talk about canned beans a little later on.

If you are used to using canned beans go ahead and give dried beans a go. The common beans like pintos and chickpeas are so much cheaper when you start from dry. My go-to method uses the slow cooker and you can find directions in this Beyond Easy Slow Cooker Beans post.

Typically, I do not soak my beans because I want them to cook all day...