Beans are an incredibly easy ingredient to cook, and the perfect base or accompaniment for many dishes like soup, chili, tacos, rice, salad, dips and more. They’re nutritious, chock-full of protein ...

Beans are a hugely important part of our culinary world, serving as a staple ingredient for a wealth of cuisines. However, buying a bag of dried beans can be intimidating and lead to a tedious task in ...

A POT OF BEANS: Cooking doesn’t get much more basic than that. Beans might be cute (especially pretty heirloom varieties), and well-made beans make a tasty, cheap side dish. But that seems to be about ...

Most people don't know how to cook dried beans. Their knowledge of legumes doesn't extend past that old playground rhyme. How’d it go? Bean, beans, they’re good for your heart. The more you eat, the ...

Yum, beans! My shopping cart is regularly filled with a large variety of produce and cans of beans. Lentils, black beans, chick peas, kidney beans, and black eyed peas are great staple foods to keep ...

Skip straight to cooking instead. There is a lot of bean cooking lore out there. Some of it good advice, and some of it bad.

Rich, earthy, hearty — there’s nothing quite so reassuring as having a pot of beans simmering in the oven when cool weather comes along. So why don’t more people cook them? One of the main reasons is ...

A hot pan and good oil are the keys to quick, flavorful green beans at home.

Dried beans seemed like the prudent thing to stockpile last year when people were gearing up for the unknown. Bought with the best of intentions, however, these cans or bags of beans may still be ...

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 ...

The Village Idiot in Los Angeles serves a beans and bitter greens dish that reader Chris Shellan from Atwater Village describes as “incredible — rich and meaty, yet they swore they didn’t use any meat ...