Category: Beans

  • Chickpeas and Sausage

    Chickpeas and Sausage

    I’m cleaning up the site again (does it ever end?) and converting recipes, finding recipes that didn’t make it to WordPress when I moved things, adding photos, reworking things.  So please let me know if you see anything wonky.  This recipe for Chickpeas and Sausage came from Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin. I’d…

  • Dom’s Mamma’s Pasta e Fagioli

    Dom’s Mamma’s Pasta e Fagioli

    The other day Marlo pulled out some leftovers his mom had given him, pasta e fagioli, pasta with beans. I snuck a bite (having eaten earlier) and it was so good, even cold! I couldn’t get it out of my mind so I decided to make my own last night. I had made a pasta…

  • Linda’s Four Bean Salad

    Linda’s Four Bean Salad

    Thanks to my sister-in-law for this great bean salad recipe. The celery and green pepper add some nice crunch and the dressing is just right. Sometimes for a change, I add some canned corn as well.

  • Easy Chili Verde Recipe, Cilantro Rice & Pinto Beans

    Easy Chili Verde Recipe, Cilantro Rice & Pinto Beans

    Our Sunday dinner last night was based on the easy chili verde recipe I’d promised to make for my youngest. I also made a skillet upside down cake with fresh cranberries.  All the leftover chili went home with my kids for their lunches. I had the rice and beans with salsa and cheese wrapped up…

  • Escarole and White Bean Soup

    Escarole and White Bean Soup

    This simple Escarole and White Bean Soup tastes fantastic even though you just use water for broth. It’s also filling and nutritious. Escarole is a lettuce from the chicory family. I originally looked for it in the “greens” section at the grocery store but found it over by the lettuces. The original recipe for this…