{"id":2035,"date":"2012-02-18T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2012-02-18T03:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:00:33","slug":"q-and-a-pinto-beans-storing-pasta-and-home-insurance-while-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/02\/18\/q-and-a-pinto-beans-storing-pasta-and-home-insurance-while-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Pinto beans, storing pasta, and home insurance while building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinto beans<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am interested in purchasing a brand of pinto beans called Navaho Pinto Beans. Are you familiar with this variety, and where I might purchase a few pounds? This variety is supposed to cook quicker.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sherry<\/em>
\nPaulding, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

No, I’m not familiar with Navajo Pintos. The Navajo nation grows a variety of pinto called Navajo Pride. You can Google this variety and find contact information. Otherwise, Native Seeds\/SEARCH carries dozens of native beans, many of which cook very quickly. I can up my pintos so when I want a mess of pintos or refried beans, I just dump out a jar. Now THAT’S quick cooking! — Jackie<\/p>\n

Storing pasta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently you had a question about storing pasta. You said to be sure the pasta was dry before putting it into jars. My question for you is, Can I dry my homemade pasta in the excalibur dehydrator and if so, about for how long?<\/em><\/p>\n

Second question, have you ever dehydrated cooked rice for a “minute rice” type instant rice? I have read it can be done but haven’t tried it yet.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lee Galloway<\/em>
\nRedding, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, you can. You want to dry pasta until it snaps when bent. Don’t dry it so long that it begins to discolor though.<\/p>\n

No, I don’t dehydrate cooked rice to make “minute-type” rice. I don’t want to bother; rice doesn’t take all that long to cook, and I don’t want to lose the nutrition by cooking it twice. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Home insurance while building<\/strong><\/p>\n

What do you do about Home Insurance when you are building or remodeling your self-sufficient house? We bought a lovely acreage with an old farmhouse that we are working on steadily as cash allows. I cannot get or keep homeowners insurance on it because all the companies want this and that done before they will allow it and gosh darn I have other projects more important than new siding, say a ceiling in my bathroom! I am very frustrated but it makes me nervous not having insurance when I don’t have the cash to replace what I have invested so far. How have you dealt with it in the past?<\/em><\/p>\n

Michelle Plamondon<\/em>
\nThompsonville, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

To tell you the truth, we have faced this situation and just did not have the cash to pay for high priced insurance on a place we were building. We could get it, but the cost was extreme. So we built and we prayed and sweated, especially when a forest fire was within half a mile of our place. Finally, we were done enough to get insurance for a reasonable price.<\/p>\n

In Minnesota, when you’re turned down by several insurance companies, there is a pool of insurance companies through whom you can get insurance. I think it’s a state-run program. I’d check with an insurance agent in Michigan, as the states vary a lot regarding laws. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinto beans I am interested in purchasing a brand of pinto beans called Navaho Pinto Beans. Are you familiar with this variety, and where I might purchase a few pounds? This variety is supposed to cook quicker. Sherry Paulding, Ohio No, I’m not familiar with Navajo Pintos. The Navajo nation grows a variety of pinto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}