Watch out for DRIED Lima Beans!
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I have to be honest and say that I have tried TWO recipes only from this cookbook.  The first was a disaster.  You can find this recipe (Baked Lima Beans in Tomato Sauce) on page 128.  The recipe calls for just putting DRIED lima beans into a baking dish with some tomato sauce and baking for 45 minutes to an hour.  I don't know what kind of dried limas the author was using but I can attest that regular old dried lima beans will NOT cook in an hour.  They will not cook in TWO hours.  I added tomato sauce.  I added water.  I added tomato juice.  I did everything possible to get those beans to cook.  Forget it.  Do NOT start this dish with dried lima beans.  It will probably work if you open a can of limas already cooked from dried.  Otherwise, just skip this recipe.  There is something just terribly wrong with it.

The second recipe I tried is called "Super Easy Lentil Biryani".  The only hard thing about this recipe was all the measuring of over a dozen different ingredients.  I plopped everything into my rice cooker and in about an hour I had some pretty good biryani.  My only problem - and you should take care if this is also true of you - was that my rice cooker is a small one (about 3 cups) and the recipe is just a tad too big.  Better, if you are using a small rice cooker, to cut the recipe in half.  It will still make a pile of biryani.
1280575
These beans are heavenly and we love them, so we thought we would start a subscription for them to be delivered to us.  Unfortunately, when I opened the box and the plastic packaging inside, there were three seriously dented cans in the middle of the set of cans.  I find it hard to believe that they have gotten that dented where they were placed in the center of the set of cans without messing up all the cans around them unless they were set in there that way, so we paid for 12 cans and end up with only 9 usable cans.  Unless I find a way to get the other three cans to replace these I will be canceling the subscription and not buying this brand any more.

It is too expensive in our local health food store, and we thought this would be a great idea. Since we got three unusable cans it ends up being too expensive again.  Too bad since it's a wonderful product my whole family loves.
1583612
I ordered three different whole bean coffee blends from Don Pablo brand.  The seals of two of three bags came apart resulting in loose coffee beans throughout my shipping box.  Coffee is OK, but they have serious packaging issues!
3315275
After looking all over my area for butter beans, I finally turned to the internet.  And guess whose name turned up: Amazon.  Since the weather turned a bit cooler yesterday, I decided to fix the beans for dinner last night.  Success!  They taste exactly like the ones my mom made when I was growing up - thanks!
4732167
I am so sad that this was affected by the peanut scare.

This has been always one of my favorite candies of all time.

Just be careful when you ask a friend to pick some up for you - you don't get a can of baked beans.

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3035402
Ive got some Haribo original gummies made in Brazil, and the taste wasn't good because of too much artificial flavor. The customers have the right to know where they are from. Ill return them if I get anything from Brazil again.
2583522
My husband is into making nut milks at home using our Vitamix so to add some flavor to his cashew milk, we opted to add some vanilla flavor. These Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans are large strands of a dark color. You need a precision knife to cut them open, as the bean is dried up and is rather small. Then you need to scoop out the gooey dark vanilla goods from the inside and use it in your food. You discard the skin. You can see in the picture how it looks and as far as smell, well, it's vanilla alright. It smells delicious.

As to how much to use, we went easy the first time: We used 1/3 of a single vanilla bean in about 8 cups of cashew milk and it was too subtle. We could smell a hint of vanilla but not much more so next time we used a whole bean and it's just right for 8 cups measure of nut milk.

We plan to use it in our next batch of baked goods too! Excellent quality, packaging, and flavor.

Update on the beans 1 month later: they went completely bad. My husband went to use them, we had stored them in the cabinet, in a cool dry dark place, and he said they were totally disposable. They had gotten modly and hairy and smelly. Yikes! Why would they go bad so quickly? I hate that I am reducing my rating but this is really awful. I guess you have to use them fast but how can you? It's an essence you add to food, not an essential that is itself food.

Disclaimer: I received this product at zero or very low cost to test and provide my honest, unbiased opinion. Your thoughts and experiences may vary from that of my own.
2567005
LOTS of stems and sticks in the package.  Seems fresh enough, added it to my beans (after carefully picking out the sticks and dry, hard stems) and it added nice flavor and the "anti-flatulence component" seemed to work pretty well.  I'll look elsewhere next time though, I hate picking through everything just to get enough usable leaves for the beans!
2453899
I had my bag for a few months now, and will expire in 2016. I like that it's organic and jam packed with nutrients. The seeds are very interesting: they bloat up when you put them in water and taste slimy. It doesn't taste like anything when you eat it plain; just dry little seeds that get slimy when you leave them in your mouth for a while. Great for yogurt, smoothies, and sauces. HOWEVER, I just grabbed a tablespoon-worth of seeds from the bag with my hand and put some in my mouth. I looked down at the rest of the seeds in my hand and there were tiny BUGS all over the seeds and my hands! I immediately spit out the seeds in my mouth and rinsed thoroughly. I am SO disgusted! I don't even know if there were bugs when I ate them before, since I usually just toss them into my food and beverages. I only noticed now since I used my hand to get the seeds and the bugs clinged to my skin, while they slipped around with the seeds when I used a spoon. I suggest people to check their seeds thoroughly before eating them. The bugs are almost unnoticeable; extremely small and blend with the seeds. You might have to shake the seeds on a rough surface to separate the seeds from the bugs.
1662209
I always buy kona blend coffee through Amazon (Jeremiah's Pick 5 lb bag whole beans) but I ran out and thought it was a good time to experiment with a different brand. YUCK!  My bag of Jeremiah's Pick came today and I was so glad. The Don Francisco coffee looked different and smelled funky. Tasted the same. It was muddy and took much cream to disguise the taste. No more experimenting for me!
1344727
I had originally bought this product at Costco and the beans were light in color, very soft and crunchy and delicious. I was so excited to get more that I purchased some online for delivery as I was unable to get to Costco again for a week. I was extremely disappointed when this product arrived as  the beans appeared dark and were very hard Luke they were over cooked. It was like crunching small rocks. I was unable to eat them.  I wasted my money on the order. I ended up returning to Costco to buy more which were once again delicious and much cheaper!!!  I realize it is not your company's fault but poor quality control on the manufacturer's side. Now I will only buy them when I have the ability to see the beans for myself and make sure they don't look burnt.
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I bought this from my local market.  My husband liked it.  I happened to notice this morning when looking at the tea bag wrapper, it containted PEANUTS!  No mention of that allergen was listed on the outside of the box.  I fired off an email to Stash already.  It seems Amazon got it listed correctly.  All of my tea has now been trashed.
Watch out since Stash does not seem to label the outside of their boxes.
830368
I too did not purchase these from Amazon, but holy cow, I had to warn the unsuspecting public!  These baked beans are horrible, absolutely awful.  I can't state it strongly enough, do not buy these beans!  I'm just lucky there was a sink near by!
1360980
I received my order with some green beans that look like mold along with normal beans in a bag, which the seller claims they are not mold but the residue from the weeds in the bean field. They told me that the color is just on the skin and should be easily washed off.

The green color of the beans in my bag NEVER came off, because the color was actually not on the skin of the beans, but in the meat of the beans.

I have bought several 5 pound bags from the same supplier in the past to cook soy bean powder. Up to the last bag, the results were satisfactory with the dry and flavorful soy bean powder.

However, in the exactly same cooking process, the new soy bean powder from the beans of my last order turned out to be quite opposite. It was pretty damp and totally flavorless.

The seller told me that " I know for a fact that there are hardly any green beans in a 5 pound bag or in a 13 pound bag." Then, I wonder how my bag should contain more than a few green beans? Their quality control must have not been consistent or have gone wrong with this batch.

It seems solely a luck if you can receive a good batch or not.

The idea of contacting them about this issue initially gave me a hope to continue to stay with them for years to come. But I was wrong.

Through multiple exchanges of emails with the seller, I got an impression that they are trying so hard to defend and justify themselves without trying to solve the problem with expressing any compassion. They have never implemented further investigation about the quality control issue. I felt like I was talking to a lawyer and they had to win the case because they were always right.

The product description on this product page clearly mentions "This product is shipped directly to you from Fairview Farms in Iowa. Due to the fact that we can't resale returned food product, the seller doesn't accept returned product and will not issue refund."

They are 100% right, even when their product has a problem. As of today, I have not yet received any refund or replacement from them.
3747917
I got the light roast and when it came the beans were dry as a bone, as if they were years old and lacked flavor. Off the shelf ground cheap coffee offers more flavor. The seller will not take returns so be sure you want to make the investment in really bad coffee. I'd rather drink chicory than this mess!
684920
The seeds I received - and unfortunately shared some with friends and relatives - are fake! Not malabar spinach but miribilis jalapa. It is not edible! Just started flowering. I hope no one get poisoned by eating it.
1210608
Plain and simple the printing on the bags they sell now do NOT mention 100% arabaca beans so I think we can EASILY and SAFELY assume that these bags of coffee are not 100% arabaca like they used to be.  I stopped buying it as soon as the words 100% arabaca beans disappeared!  Bye Bye Costco coffee!!