Chef and author Von Diaz invites us to her backyard grill in North Carolina to share her favorite bean and collard greens recipes. As a child, I hated rice and beans. This was incredibly stressful for ...

Learn how to make delicious Southern style beans step by step with simple ingredients perfect for family dinners, soul food nights, potlucks or everyday meals. This quick and easy recipe shows you how ...

Bringing dried beans to a boil before letting them stand in the hot water for just an hour means you can skip the lengthy overnight soak usually required.

Classic, sweet and smoky, baked beans are perfect for cold, rainy days, no barbecue required. A simple pot of soup, this recipe makes great use of canned chickpeas (you can use any beans) and a bunch ...

You probably already know that there's a difference between dried beans and canned beans, but the prospect of cooking beans ...

In keeping with the recent topics of eating low on the food chain for environmental reasons (e.g., beans instead of meat) and cooking for a crowd, I dug out an old recipe for a curried red lentil soup ...

You might have noticed that some of the longstanding disputes in cooking are dualities, one side pitched as a better choice against one other: unsalted or salted butter, for example, or seasoned cast ...

Some people mark the start of fall with an apple pie. Others start breaking out the big reds from their wine cellars. Me? I’m a bean boy. All it takes is the first sign of a nip in the air or the ...

Let’s get one thing straight. Canned beans are never going to be as good as home-cooked dried beans, no matter how many seasonings you add to your pot. They’re like any other convenience food: a wan ...