Beans, beans, beans!

I have just been to the 'Taste of Manassa' and enjoyed it immensely. A my son's wife went with me. For those of you who are not privileged to have a 'Taste of Manassa' I will explain. (The rather long version, sorry.)
A number of years ago I went to some homemaking meetings in Lamar. These were put on by businesses. This group of promoters would come into a community and approach many businesses and get donations of goods and appliances. They would then advertise and hoards of women would flock to the show- it was free then. At the show there would be demonstrations given on how to cook new and delicious recipes. Everyone attending received a bag of free items such as; a cookbook (of the recipes they were showing plus more), a pencil, magnet, post-its, tomato corer, jar opener, other priceless indispensable kitchen accouterments (with advertisements coating their surfaces). Everyone entered their name into the drawing boxes on the way in and during the evening (which became incredibly long) names were drawn and bags of groceries, casseroles they had just made (in some incredibly lovely dishes by the way), some extra items donated by the stores, were given away. And all were excitedly awaiting the sound of their own name being called out indicating they had won some fabulous prize. I loved them. We would carpool planning weeks ahead. Then they started selling tickets and I was not quite as thrilled. I stayed home.
Well, on a much saner note that is sort of what the 'Taste of Manassa' is. We have several demonstrations of recipes (of which we receive copies), then we get to taste them, also if we are lucky we might take home a new apron, dish towel, jar of honey, or a can of food storage. It is a wonderful time, put on by our 3 church wards.
Tonight it's theme was international recipes. We had Samoan, Italian, Creole, French, German, Mexican-now this is where this whole thing was leading-she told us some awe inspiring news. "If you will cook a carrot with your beans they will not give you gas!" Now that is important news and such a simple solution, don't you think? I will for sure be trying that one!