Beans, beans, beans

So I've been cooking vegetarian dog food for Koko for some months now since she started having severe allergic reactions to every kind of commercial dog food out there (anything with meat or seafood, and even the vegan dog food on the market). It's been a sort of experimental period of "hmmm, these websites say this but I'll have to substitute with this because I live in south-east Asia and American products aren't actually that easily available or affordable here and damn, I need to start a vegetable garden for my dog".

I actually have started planting sweet potatoes buy curse those whiteflies. They're not making my life easy. And why do the damn potatoes take 140+ days to grow? And the damn planting sites are very ambiguous about how to plant the damn things. I can't believe I learnt how to plant the darn tubers from watching a short coverage on Astro AFTER I already planted the first batch in the pot. I suppose I'll just have to try again after this.

But seriously, beans in Malaysia that can be beneficial to dogs are expensive! And I can't just be feeding her lentils forever. And geez, all these websites are talking about stove top vs pressure cooker style cooking and I just want to know if it'll work if I throw the damn beans into the rice cooker darn it. And of course kidney beans would be toxic if undercooked. Bugger all. And wahahaha, they have pinto beans listed as beneficial. And I actually really like eating pinto beans thanks to Mexican food in the States. But they don't sell it at the market here. And hmm, they look similar to those fresh beans mum buys for Chinese soup which are hard to find nowadays and bloody expensive; and bugger all, Google images is telling me that they're the same. Mind blown. Been eating fresh pinto beans in soup in Malaysia and I like 'em, and been eating rehydrated, cooked pinto beans in the States and <3 them. And never knew they were the same beans. And now I need to seriously get my hands on some here to start planting them!

Organic fair this Saturday. I'm going to pray for pinto beans.