There's nothing difficult about bean cookery since it is only a question of time. Before cooking, all dried beans need to be rehydrated by soaking. The 10- to 12-hour overnight soak is the easy and ...

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 ...

Bean purée with crispy speck is like this gem from Northern Italy—seriously good. You know, locals there really know how to ...

I’ve said — or written — it so many times, I long ago lost count. But here goes again: The key to quick-but-interesting weeknight cooking is to get in the habit of making building blocks on the ...

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.

This easy bean dish from Tieghan Gerard's latest cookbook, "Half Baked Harvest: Quick and Cozy" (Clarkson Potter, $32.99), will make dinner or lunch feel like a warm hug. It combines the flavors of a ...

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 ...