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Chi Soybeans! Chi Soybeans!

Stoatie—you joked about soy tiddies! As a former breast cancer patient (cancer free for 8 years! And my tiddies are long gone), I have been cautioned to avoid soy beans and soy products where I can, and to eat sparingly of cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and similar green leaf vegetables. I DO eat these vegetables but maybe that something once or twice a week. Most often I have cabbage in the form of cole slaw, our favorite instant side dish.

‘What does ‘Overnight’ mean?’

I believe you are overthinking this.

In cooking, as when your boyfriend stays ‘overnight’, it is not so much about the number of hours as the resulting outcome.

If ‘overnight’ reaches the soft and mushy point everything is great.

If things are still hard, then ‘overnight’ still has some time to go.

If things have soured, then throw the bum ingredient out as something has gone wrong and no amount of waiting around will fix it.

In any event, you’ll ‘just know’ when the time comes.

The actual duration of “overnight” can vary a bit, especially in Barrow (a/k/a Utqiagvik), Alaska. It’s north of the Arctic Circle, and has a winter overnight of almost two months, and in summer there’s no overnight at all!

Dried chickpeas (garbanzo beans)) are terrific cooked this way too….sometimes I get all fancy and toss the cooked soybeans or chickpeas in a couple of tablespoons of my fav chili powder mix and the zest of a lime. Garam masala is tasty too.

And people wonder why Badgers stick to worm pie…

Do you know the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

@Pupster – A water sports fan isn’t interested in having a garbanzo bean on his head.

Here’s one using garbanzo beans, or chickpeas. Chef John mentions a similar snack that’s fried, but these are roasted in a hot oven instead which takes longer but is probably tidier. Warning: recipe calls for soaking “overnight.”

https://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2015/03/crunchy-spiced-chickpeas-margaritas.html

Deborah, I confess I’m desperately confused about the relationship between soy, estrogen and women’s health. So far, I’ve had that luxury.

I didn’t think it was possible to finish that joke with such flourish. Good job Uncle Al.

@Pupster – Thank you. I did have to modify my normal delivery of that punch line for Mme. Hermine’s (mostly) genteel ambience. (-:

“water sports”, eh? Ok, learn something every day.