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
The story of Jack and the beanstalk is true. At least in my garden. Not only do we have young […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bursting with sweet, sour, smoky and salty flavors, this salad is a riff on a delicious-sounding recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi […]
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
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
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
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
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For […]
