I find beans entrancing. Their splendid colours, shapes and shiny skins are jewel-like, beautiful and tactile. There are some recipes in which only dried beans, soaked overnight and cooked from ...

Reason alone to save your chard stems, though thinly sliced fennel can also be used. Whole runner beans are completely edible; swap in flat beans or Romano types, or any other snap bean you like. Heat ...

Have you noticed how breadcrumbs have had a glow-up? They’ve come a long way from the brown, sandy crumbs I knew as a kid. A few years ago we discovered Japanese panko breadcrumbs, spiky shards that ...

We were planting potatoes and onions today and I kept thinking about Goshen reader Bill Kirby, who needed a recipe for half runner beans like his wife cooked. Remember I put out his request a couple ...

Simon Hopkinson's latest book is an English-looking volume with a Francophile sensibility, inspired by a meal thrown together from leftover... Serves 4, as a light lunch or supper I like the mimicry ...

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 ...

Vermont cranberry and black beans from Lewis Creek Farm and Jacob’s Cattle beans from Morningstar Farm Credit: Melissa Pasanen Despite New England’s proud tradition of maple baked beans, Jeannette ...