Category: Beans

  • White Beans, Tuscan Style

    White Beans, Tuscan Style

    Cook up these easy and delicious white beans, Tuscan style, for an easy side dish. The recipes is from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food, a great resource for vegetarians and non-vegetarians looking to expand their repertoire. These were really good! They remind me of those cans of “lightly seasoned…

  • Lentil and Potato Curry

    Lentil and Potato Curry

    I made this for my dad’s 84th birthday as a side dish for those of us eating salmon and a main dish for those of us not. It comes from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food. Everyone loved it, vegetarians and meat eaters. I should have doubled the recipe I…

  • Recipe for Ranchero Pinto Beans

    Recipe for Ranchero Pinto Beans

    I love it when I get a fabulous recipe right off the package of the main ingredient. In this case, the recipe came off the Safeway house brand of a 1-lb bag of pinto beans. I don’t bother soaking the beans overnight. I just cook them a bit longer and they seem to come out…

  • Lentil Soup

    Lentil Soup

    This is so easy to fix because you don’t need to presoak anything! Yesterday I made it this way…

  • Making Use of Leftover Pork

    This would be great with either leftover pork roast or pork tenderloin. I used the leftover pork tenderloin I’d barbecued a few days back but the book I got it from suggested leftover pork roast. I seem to be having an issue posting Amazon links so will forfeit the 50 cents I’d make off the…