The Only White Beans You'll Ever Want To Eat Again

I’m writing to you from my compound in Mendo with a very full house. I’ve termed this tradition “Camp Mendo,” where friends and family come up for a few days of total immersion: beach bonfire cookouts, sauna followed by a cold plunge in the salt river, garden dinners, lots of outdoor bathing, and sleeping beneath the healing redwoods.

As I prepared for our first round of guests to arrive—our friends—I was doing the florals from our gothic cut flower garden, all while racing toward the very last-minute completion of the unit that inspired me to buy this compound in the first place: the Water Tower, a very traditional Mendocino architectural staple and the last unit to be remodeled, completing the three-and-a-half-year renovation process. It felt like a very dramatic renovation show, with only half the fixtures installed, the place full of tools, and cardboard covering the floors that morning. By that evening, just before our friends arrived, it was sparkling and fully staged.

All this to say, things have been BUSY! I tend to write these on Mondays, fiddle with them a little on Tuesday, wait for any last messages from the universe on Wednesday, then give them one final polish before they go live on Thursday at 1 a.m. PST. However, because of summer holiday, with no kids in school and nonstop hosting, I’m writing this the night before and praying that it’s cohesive.

Due to the lack of time today, I want to share my absolute staple of all staples: the dish we eat weekly and bring to nearly every dinner party we’re invited to, to which many guests inevitably say, “How did you get the beans so creamy?” They have the most beautiful lemon hue (without any lemon in them at all). “These are the best beans.”

Having been on the bean protocol for almost seven years now, beans are a part of my everyday life—multiple times a day. They are as fundamental to me as bread would have been to my ancestors. Even before the bean protocol, I had always loved beans. I could live on beans. So when I learned that isolating beans and fats could help heal my Addison’s and many of my autoimmune symptoms...

Ok, let’s get into this very easy bean recipe including the link to the biodynamic farm I source from that tests for 200 sprays!

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