White Bean Salad with Italian Salsa Verde
Italian salsa verde is one of those versatile sauces that can boost almost any dish. We especially love it paired with creamy white beans and crunchy vegetables. It's endlessly adaptable,...
Recipes
Loncheria Fusion Kitchen's Lentil Ceviche
Earlier this year, we celebrated the grand opening of our new downtown Napa store with catering by Felipe Lezama of Loncheria Fusion Kitchen. All the food was incredible, but these lentil...
Emily Nunn's Spicy Butternut Squash Salad with Herbed Chickpeas and Labneh
Emily Nunn runs The Department of Salad newsletter, an endless source of salad wisdom. She shared this salad, which she especially loves because "all the elements— roasted winter squash, peppery...
Scarlet Runner Bean, Red Pepper, and Celery Salad
Steve made this salad last summer, and it was such a hit that he wrote down the recipe to save for our annual "Salad of the Day" marathon. One nice...
Smoky Zipper Cream Butter
Farm to People is a stellar organization that is bringing good food all over the NYC/Tri-State area. In addition to their deliveries, they have a warehouse space in Brooklyn just...
Verdinas with Clams (Spanish-Style Baby Lima Beans with Clams)
Photo credit: Cúrate RestaurantEarlier in the year, we made our way to North Carolina for a trip to Davidson College and to Asheville for a special bean dinner at Curate. ...
Provencal Tuna, White Bean, and Celery Salad
This French-style salad comes from our friend and favorite Francophile, Georgeanne Brennan. She says: “Creamy white beans combined with flaky bits of fish and crunchy celery makes an appetizing first...
Zipper Cream Peas with Broccolini
Photo credit to Bean Club® member Karina Jauregui. She added some fresh salsa! We don’t understand why Zipper Cream isn’t better known and appreciated outside the South. There’s this little...
Bludso's BBQ Red Beans and Rice
o Our staff test kitchen tried a new version of Red Beans and Rice from the recent book, Bludso's BBQ Cookbook (Ten Speed Press, 2022). They'd made it with our...
Runner Bean and Raw Asparagus Salad
Like almost everyone else, I have been enamored with Joshua McFadden's cookbook, Six Seasons. At first I resisted. Seasonal market cooking. Really? Again? Yes, really. The story is the seasons...
Black Calypso and Cauliflower Spread on Toasted Bread
This is a smart appetizer for entertaining because you can make all the components in advance and assemble them just before your guests arrive. You could also serve this as...
Teri Adolfo's Tomato, Bean, and Coconut Soup
Teri Adolfo has been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine, Body Work, and Ayurveda for 30 years. She works with clients diagnosed with cancer and various inflammatory conditions. Her joy is using...
Red Cabbage and Red Bean Salad
2 cups shredded red cabbage 1 cup cooked, drained Domingo Rojo, Mayan Red, or Hidatsa Red beans, or other firm heirloom beans 1/4 red onion, chopped or thinly sliced Handful of fresh...
Insalata di Corona (Corona Bean Salad)
We continue to be amazed at the simplicity and flavor of the recipes in Judith Barrett's Fagioli: The Bean Cuisine of Italy. There are 8 ingredients in this salad, including the salt and...
Ceci Piccoli and Cucumber Salad
Using cucumbers in a salad seems obvious, but they can be very wet, and after a short while, your salad might look more like a cold soup. Here, the seeds and middle...