Category: Beans
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Corn and Black-Eyed Pea Salad from A Gracious Plenty
You could make this Corn and Black-Eyed Pea Salad with almost any canned bean I think. I like black-eyed peas but sometimes they can be tricky to find where I live. What’s good is all the crunch of the vegetables with the dressing. Play around as needed! The recipe is from A Gracious Plenty. I…
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Corn and Bean Salad
Here’s another great salad recipe from Raising the Salad Bar, which has become one of my favorite cookbooks. This calls for black beans but the first time I made it I used pinto beans. The second time I made it I had black beans. Both times it was really good–just a more colorful contrast with…
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White Bean Salad
This goes together quickly for a wonderful side dish but is also great the next day for leftovers. It’s a riff on a recipe I saw in a magazine. (Can’t remember which and I left out the mint it called for, as I’m not partial to mint in salads. I remember the original recipe called…
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How to Cook Dried Beans
Dried beans are a great money-saver, but using them means you need to plan ahead a bit and have a few hours to cook the beans. If you make your menus ahead of time, you can plan this out fairly easily and just cook them on the weekend or start a pot of beans while…
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Four Bean Casserole
This recipe came from my good friend Elizabeth. It’s always popular at potlucks and goes great with just about any barbecued meal.