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White Bean and Ham Soup: How to Use Your Leftover Ham and Hambone

It’s our family tradition to serve ham for dinner on Christmas, along with cheesy and creamy scalloped potatoes and sautéed green beans. I grew up in a Jewish household, so eating ham, especially on ...

Vegan Friendly Fall Squash Chili

Fall is, hands down, my favorite season. The foliage, the beanies and most importantly, the comforting food. Every year, my friends and I host a potluck meetup with a bountiful table of food that ...

Red Beans and Rice: A Louisiana Favorite

I'm back with another bean edition! I have such a variety of beans stocked up that I might as well pop in every so often with a new bean recipe for you. Legumes have been a big part of my heritage, ...

Warming and Hearty Tex-Mex Beef Chili

This won’t be your traditional Texas style chili, but it will contain all of the same rich and spicy flavors you would expect from such. My Tex-Mex chili follows the techniques and flavor profiles of ...

4 Ways to Turn a Can of Beans into Dinner

If you’ve spoken to me at all, ever, in the entire course of my adult life, you know that I feel a deep, passionate love for beans. I always tell my husband that if there's a can of beans in the ...

Beans in the Raw

A popular question that I get from many home cooks is whether or not it's worth it to take the time to soak and prepare beans from raw instead of just using canned beans. Canned beans are a wonderful ...

A Taste of Greece at Home

When I left Greece last fall, I came home with a suitcase full of Greek ingredients. What better way to put them to use than to cook for my travel partner on that trip Cheryl and her life partner ...

Vegetarian Chili

I’ve established a couple of blog themes but the most prevalent is utilizing what I have available. Once again, I am beginning with the vegetables I prepped in a recent Knife Skills class (as I did ...

Get Must-Have Kitchen Tools During our Sale at the Mart

It's almost spring in Chicago, and for me personally, that means spring cleaning, organizing closets and sorting through my kitchen. I'm sure you can relate. Right now, I am looking at my spice ...

The Elusive Quick and Easy Weeknight Meal

Americans are obsessed with convenience. I don’t blame us; it’s nice having products and services available that take small, time consuming tasks off our hands, so we can focus on the things we ...

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White Bean and Ham Soup: How to Use Your Leftover Ham and Hambone

Vegan Friendly Fall Squash Chili

Red Beans and Rice: A Louisiana Favorite

Warming and Hearty Tex-Mex Beef Chili

4 Ways to Turn a Can of Beans into Dinner

Beans in the Raw

A Taste of Greece at Home

Vegetarian Chili

Get Must-Have Kitchen Tools During our Sale at the Mart

The Elusive Quick and Easy Weeknight Meal

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