Hey there listeners, future callers, and cooking enthusiasts.

Welcome to Dinner S.O.S.

The show where we help you save dinner or whatever you're cooking.

I'm Chris Morocco, food director of Bonapete and Epicureus.

Our caller this week is Teddy, and Teddy lives in Denmark, land of gorgeous butter-filled

laminated pastries.

But unfortunately, Teddy can't take advantage of any of it because she's vegan.

That's the one issue living in Copenhagen being surrounded with these beautiful bakeries

and being tempted every single day.

Butter. There's just butter everywhere.

I know.

But Teddy's SOS isn't about plant-based baked goods.

My issue is actually with beans. Beans. Beans, yes. So I know as a vegan, eating beans is quite important to my lifestyle, but I have not grown up with beans at all and I simply don't know how to cook them or how to enjoy them, guess I feel very comfortable when it comes to chickpeas and other

legumes like lentils that I would almost cook with every day but when it comes to kidney beans and black beans and kind of lonely

beans I don't know these are just beans that I don't know what to do with them then I see interesting

recipes on Tik-Tok for example and it looks delicious but then it's always just beans and I'm

Confused if I need to pair them with something. There's this one chef on Tik-Tok and she eats it with bread,

but for me when it comes to dinner I don't prefer eating bread.

Okay.

And then I just have a bunch of questions around beans.

Yeah, okay. Interesting.

And what do you think it is about chickpeas that sort of makes them feel more accessible to you?

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