Drying the beans: Place the beans evenly on a baking ... cornbread or cookies: 1/4 cup mesquite flour + 3/4 cup wheat flour. For savory dishes, use as breading for meat, fish or cheese.

yellowish string-bean-like pods produced by mesquite trees on her property and around her neighborhood. And each fall, she has the sweet-tasting pods ground into flour. "We use it to make pancakes ...

Despite a warning to wear rattlesnake shin guards when walking through the Hill Country, the only sound I hear is the ticking of grasshoppers, crickets and dragonflies on this 100-degree day in ...

Those skinny yellow tree pods falling into the swimming pool and littering the lawn seem like nothing more than a messy nuisance — until you realize they can be turned ...

That’s right, folks. Mesquite bean season is here. But as omnipresent as the dang things are, one place you probably won’t find them is your kitchen. For shame. Flour ground from mesquite pods ...

Harvested beans can be dried even further by putting ... leaves and other debris — for milling at $3 a gallon. Mesquite flour is high in protein and can have a sweet, nutty, smoky taste.

That’s the purely regional name for mesquite beans, and it comes from the Opata ... Mesquite is coming into popularity as a source of flour. If you have lots of pods, you can take them to ...

Most of Gyawali's beans come from ranches in South and West Texas, where the honey mesquite grows wild like a weed. He roasts the pods, then mills them into an aromatic flour that smells of cream ...