Glad you like the beans, Sue. I guess my all time favorite is great northern, followed closely by large lima, and cranberry (sometimes called roman) in third place. I do also like 15 beans.

Shirley

Blackeye peas and pinto beans are my favorites.

I like pinto, and while not quite chili, with cumin and spices that could be considered more hispanic. I've been making bean soup with flageolets in place of northern white the last few years and am so pleased with those. I soak them overnight in cold water in the refrigerator, rinse and cook with ham, garlic, onion, celery.

Great white northern. I also like large dried limas if I'm making homemade baked beans.

You all didn't get me this time with the cravings. I have part of a ham baking now and enough saved for bean soup tomorrow. YUM

I like lentils and I also vote for Great northern

Garbanzo beans are my favorite. I like them cooked for 8-12 hours. They are soft like butter when done. I like lentils too.

Another vote for the Great Northern bean-love them with ham & cornbread.

lentil, great northern....

Cranberry beans and Anasazi Beans the top 2 but I have not found one that I don't like. Just cooked a big pot of baby limas and tasso last week. Of course true red beans are a favorite, I think my least favorite is the big red kidney beans and a lot of people use them for red beans and rice. They are much too starchy for that.

Navy beans. So delicious slow cooked with ham hocks.

Southern Favorite..Butter Beans w/Hamhocks..green onions..cornbread...yum

I cook black beans, freeze, and keep in plastic bags in the freezer. I just pour out what I need. I also keep lentils and pearl barley on hand.

Can't say I have a favorite since if I am doing chili or bean soup I tend to use a variety of beans. However I do not like black beans and avoid them at all costs. They taste like dirt to me. I also avoid soy beans since I am hypothyroid.

My favorite is red beans. I cook them with some locally produced sausage and serve over rice. The next day I mash them and make tostados.

Black beans are probably my favorite, but I like most of them. Cannelli beans or Great Northern are next. I've never tried cranberry beans specifically, must seek them out.

Lentils, because they cook so quickly, without soaking. I like all dried beans, except for kidney beans, so I use black beans in my chili. For bean soup with ham, great northerns are my favorite.

raven, when we lived in Colorado, almost 30 years ago, one of our farming neighbors was trying to bring the Anasazi bean into commercial production. He showed me his seed beans, but I've never seen them for sale in a grocery store. Maybe they just haven't reached Kroger in southern Ohio. ;)

Garbanzo beans. Soaked overnight, then 20 minutes in my Instant Pot. Perfection. In fact, I have some in the IP right now.

The only store here I have found the anasazi dry beans in is HEB. I try to stock up when I go there. Kroger doesn't carry them. I was surprised to see the cranberry beans at Kroger. They are similar to each other in taste and consistency. They are a mild bean and don't cause the gas problems of some beans. I have been considering just ordering them online since I don't get to HEB often.

My mother loved a big pot of butter beans and ham, we do too but when I was a kid I didn't like them.

Marilyn Sue -care to share your muffin top recipe? (If you have it on your computer)

I like Alton Brown's lentil soup http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/lentil-soup-recipe/

I imagine if you don't like the Indian Food spices you could season it with whatever you like.

Aunt Petunia, I just used a box of Jiffy cornbread mix, put it in my Whoopie pie pans, sprinkled the top with some sugar and baked them. I wanted something quick and since it was just for me that was okay by me.

Sue

Thanks!!! Those sound good

Pintos and Great Northern white beans are my favorites. I will cook dried black-eyed peas in a pinch but my favorite way to eat those are fresh or fresh-frozen.

No beans for me at all!