It's that time again - let's see how we did with our meal plan last week . Meal 1 - Christmas lima beans with caramelized onions and bacon, spinach salad I had been curious about heirloom beans and was poking around on the interwebs when I found the Rancho Gordo site . They have an almost rabid following and I decided to give one of their samplers a try. These are expensive beans, so I was hoping they would knock my socks off. Either beans are beans or I have a terribly unsophisticated palette, because I truly didn't notice much of a difference between these and other dried beans (now these beans and canned beans, no contest. The Rancho Gordo beans kick canned beans in the .... well, can). It is important to me to support small farms and it's VERY important to keep heirloom varieties around (we don't want another potato famine now, do we?), so I'll probably keep heirloom beans in the pantry along side the conventional dried beans. I would like to find a pro...