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Year of the Bean: Slow-cooked Green Bean Stew & Soup
September 16, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Year of the Bean: Slow-cooked Green Bean Stew & Soup

This is the year of the bean. My tiny in-town garden has been pumping out bush beans at the rate […]

Green Bean Risotto
August 4, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Green Bean Risotto

The story of Jack and the beanstalk is true. At least in my garden. Not only do we have young […]

Summer Bean Salads
July 30, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Appetizers

Summer Bean Salads

A pot of beans is a summer savior.  Cooked dried beans are so versatile that you can use them in […]

Summer Salad of Freekeh, Cucumbers and Beans
July 29, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Summer Salad of Freekeh, Cucumbers and Beans

I’m not sure which I’m more excited about: lovely yellow and green beans that I grow in our garden, or […]

Waste Not Want Not: Fennel Frond Broth for Cooking Beans and Making Soup
July 11, 2012 2 Comments by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Waste Not Want Not: Fennel Frond Broth for Cooking Beans and Making Soup

The first of a two-part series on ideas for using the whole fennel plant – bulb, stalks and fronds – […]

Fava Beans: Supper from Garden to Table in No Time
June 28, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Fava Beans: Supper from Garden to Table in No Time

During winter months, I have a routine for getting supper on the table quickly after a long day. As soon […]

Impromptu: Curried Sweet Potato, Chickpeas and Spinach
May 22, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Impromptu: Curried Sweet Potato, Chickpeas and Spinach

It was just one of those days. I came home late and my husband came home early. While the refrigerator […]

Waste Not Want Not: Pickled Chard Stems and a Bunch of Ways to Use Them
May 20, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Waste Not Want Not: Pickled Chard Stems and a Bunch of Ways to Use Them

The weather turned reliably warm and my chard bolted. I don’t mean, found the door and vamoosed. I mean, developed […]

Marinated Snowcap Beans for a Salad or Appetizer
April 15, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Appetizers

Marinated Snowcap Beans for a Salad or Appetizer

Those big oval creamy lupini beans from the so-called olive bar at grocery stores are deliciously addictive eaten as part […]

Red Cabbage and White Bean Soup
February 25, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Red Cabbage and White Bean Soup

Comforting flavors for a cold and blustery day, an old standby adapted pretty liberally from Marcella Hazen’s The Classic Italian […]

Lentils with Sour Cherries, Bacon and Blue Cheese
February 25, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Lentils with Sour Cherries, Bacon and Blue Cheese

Bursting with sweet, sour, smoky and salty flavors, this salad is a riff on a delicious-sounding recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi […]

Seafood Chili
February 19, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Seafood Chili

This is the season of the dried bean. Soups, stews, chilis and chowders, and even a few salads and sides […]

Waste Not Want Not: Using Bean Broth
February 16, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Waste Not Want Not: Using Bean Broth

Stewing pots of dried beans and chickpeas and lentils all winter yields nutritious legume broth that is simply too good […]

Pumpkin, Tomato and Chickpea Soup with Ras el Hanout
February 5, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Pumpkin, Tomato and Chickpea Soup with Ras el Hanout

Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say.  This afternoon, I needed to clean out our freezer and my […]

Indian-spiced Chickpeas and Mushrooms
January 28, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Indian-spiced Chickpeas and Mushrooms

Indian spices are the highlight of this otherwise earthy combination of cooked chickpeas and mushrooms, which is sparked by a […]

Dark Days 10 One-Pot Challenge: Full of Beans, a Turkey Chili
January 25, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Beans and legumes

Dark Days 10 One-Pot Challenge: Full of Beans, a Turkey Chili

A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For […]

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