Big Organic Heirloom Bean Bundle

These beans had wonderful flavor and texture. I ordered additional bags after my family devoured the first batch. Yum!

These beans are fantastic, and from the others we’ve tried we’d say you can’t go wrong with any of the Blue House beans.

So fresh! Beautiful beige beans with freckled brown markings blushing one side. Very tasty with indigenous wild rice and freshly harvested shiitake mushrooms from my local grower. Mmmmmmm 😋

I read about the Hidatsa Shield beans in Sean Sherman's (Oglala Lakota) cookbook, "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Cookbook" (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), where he lists 22 varieties of beans. He claims, "Dried beans are the backbone of Native cuisine." His describes the Hidatsa Shield beans as, "A beautiful pale-cream bean with a golden saddle, this cooks up to be creamy and delicate." That would be true in my experience now. I made my first batch to serve at Christmas dinner to company, along with a cornbread/manoomin [wild rice from MN Anishanaabe peoples] stuffing. Both were crowd pleasers. The beans are the largest I've ever seen, after soaking and cooking, so they are very hearty.

They live up to their description. Very smooth and velvety with a wonderful flavor by themselves.