Beans

Fried Royal Corona Bean Salad With Pearl Barley And Chili-Herb Yogurt

Fried Royal Corona Bean Salad With Pearl Barley And Chili-Herb Yogurt

What is the world’s largest edible bean?   Look that question up on the Internet and you are in for a trip down the rabbit hole.  There is a Guinness record for the World’s Tallest Bean plant. (46.3 feet/2003.) There is a record for “The…

Autumn Leaves, Eva Cassidy, and Beans and Lentils

Autumn Leaves, Eva Cassidy, and Beans and Lentils

The leaves are turning. The mornings are crisp and cold. It’s autumn—bean weather.   Need some music to get you in that autumn state of mind? Put on a warm sweater, grab a steaming cup of Darjeeling tea (stirred with a cinnamon stick, of course)…

Swipe Right for White Beans Au Vin

Swipe Right for White Beans Au Vin

      There have been too many to count. One was sweet and sultry and oh-so-smooth. Another was decidedly rough at the edges–kinda took my breath away. Then there was–<yawn>– the steady and reliable one.  And on and on…and on. (<Blush>) Now– it’s a…

Carpe Diem and Pass the Chiles: Spicy Spinach, Bean and Pasta Soup

Carpe Diem and Pass the Chiles: Spicy Spinach, Bean and Pasta Soup

  “Ask not (’tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years, Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers. Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past, Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our…

Cabbage and White Bean Minestrone

Cabbage and White Bean Minestrone

Brrrr. It doesn’t take Punxsutawney Phil to tell us it’s soup time.   Cabbage and White Bean Minestrone Save Recipe Print Recipe My Recipes My Lists My Calendar Ingredients2 T. extra virgin olive oil1 large onion (finely chopped)1 carrot (cut into medium chunks)1 celery stalk (cut…

A Signature Dish: Spiced Chickpea Stew With Coconut and Turmeric

A Signature Dish: Spiced Chickpea Stew With Coconut and Turmeric

For Julia Child it was Coq Au Vin. Marcella Hazan’s tour de force was her amazing Tomato Sauce. Chez Panisse’s Alice Waters rocked the culinary world with her Baked Goat Cheese With Baby Lettuces. “A signature dish is a recipe that identifies an individual chef…

Not Your Momma’s (Or Dorcas’) Holiday Green Beans: Green Beans With  Dried-Cherry Vinaigrette

Not Your Momma’s (Or Dorcas’) Holiday Green Beans: Green Beans With Dried-Cherry Vinaigrette

According to Smithsonian Magazine somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000,000 people will be eating green bean casserole this Thanksgiving, many of them following some version of the recipe Dorcas Reilly (pictured below) created in 1955. Dorcas was a food expert working for Campbell’s Soup Company…

No Worries Here: Greek Fasolada (White Bean Soup)

No Worries Here: Greek Fasolada (White Bean Soup)

I’m imagining myself enjoying a bowl of this wonderful Fasolada soup on a lazy afternoon in a boisterous Greek taverna. Outside, the turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea lap gently against faded fishing boats beached on the sand . Bottles of Fix beer and a carafe…

‘Tis The Season : Maple Baked Beans

‘Tis The Season : Maple Baked Beans

  In this season of everything pumpkin and maple, what better treat than Maple Baked Beans? Maple syrup is, after all, good in just about everything and the contrast of sweet and savory flavors in baked beans never gets old. If you’ve been wondering about…

Feeding The World: Pochas (Simmered Shelling Beans)

Feeding The World: Pochas (Simmered Shelling Beans)

    When Jose Andreas was recognized in 2018 by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world, fellow chef Emeril Legasse wrote of him: “Jose is an exceptional, generous, compassionate human being. His infectious philanthropic spirit reminds all of us…