Vegetarian Cassoulet Beans

vegetarian cassoulet beans with field roast sausage

Springtime is the right time for vegetarian cassoulet beans. I finally got into the heralded and exclusive Rancho Gordo Bean Club and we’ve been eating our weight in beans to try and keep up! Included in the most recent delivery was a pound of cassoulet beans, which I’d never had before. And I was surprised…

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Veggie Burger Recipe

Veggie Burger Recipe

This vegan bean burger recipe is very flexible, giving you endless variety. Avoid highly processed, pre-made veggie burgers and make your own! Yay! You can even store them in the freezer! Whee!

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How to Cook Beans

black beans recipe

This is the fourth in a series of answer posts to reader-submitted questions. Many of these questions and answers were incorporated into the revised edition of the Learn to Cook book. How to Cook Dried Beans To cook beans from scratch, the first step is to sort the beans. If you usually skip that step,…

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Black Bean Soup

I love black bean soup – well, any bean soup really – because you can just throw it all in a pot and (almost) forget about it for an hour or longer or the time it takes to make and drink a pitcher of margaritas, just as long as you set a timer so you…

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“Better than Ranch-Style” Beans

People been asking me to do a baked beans recipe for their summer barbecues and picnics and whatnot, but I already have a recipe for baked beans in my Learn to Cook book. So I one-upped em and came up with this SUPER DELICIOUS ranch-style beans recipe. Man alive, these are good! Way, way, waaayyy…

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Red Beans and Rice

It’s almost Mardi Gras so get your beads ready, or your boobs. I’m not really into that so I’ll just be at home stuffing my face with red beans and rice with sausage, maybe occasionally showing Chris my boobs just for kicks. Red beans and rice is possibly the most New Orleans of New Orleans…

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How To Cook Black-Eyed Peas

Black eyed peas on New Year’s Day will bring you good luck all the year! Here’s how to make perfect black eyed peas with pork fat for your loved ones. Or make them vegetarian by using some butter or oil instead of pork fat.

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How To Make Tamales

Learn the easy way to make tamales! This video and article walk you through the process from making the dough (masa) to a variety of tamale fillings. Vegan and vegetarian (or not!).

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How To Make Vegan Chili

This easy vegan chili recipe is absolutely amazing. It’s also a soy-free chili. And gluten-free if you use a gluten-free beer. Yay for vegan chili! Yay for Karol for teaching me!

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