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Posts tagged “dried beans”

The Musical Fruit: Why Beans Make Us Gassy

We love beans. We love them on their own, we love them in soups, we love them mashed into dips. But we definitely don't love some of their less fun digestive consequences. Apologies for the rather ind...

Recipe Basics: How to Cook Beans in the Slow Cooker

If you've been following along this past month, you know that we love beans. We also love our slow-cooker. Lucky for us, it just so happens that beans and slow-cookers make excellent friends! Here's h...

New Year's Day Recipes: Hoppin' John and Plenty of Pork

What are you cooking on New Year's Day? My mom always serves pork. Somewhere along the way, she picked up this idea that if you eat chicken on the first day of January "you'll scratch and scratch all...