Beans

All About Dried Beans
How and Why To Cook Dried Beans! Directions and More!
Beans are a staple in the diets of many vegetarians, yet of course they aren't limited to vegetarians! Cooking dried beans from scratch is both very economical, as well as healthy. Cooking beans is easy too! Other than the amount of time involved, there really isn't much to the process of cooking dried beans! In fact, beans don't really take as long to cook as you might think. Most beans that have been properly soaked take 2 hours or less to cook! If you soak your beans overnight, and then ...

Beans and Cornbread
Beans and Cornbread--Comfort Food at its Best!
Beans and cornbread! Like chicken tortilla soup they are a winter comfort food for me. Beans are also low in fat, high in fiber, full of complex carbs, and loaded with vitamins and minerals. Cornbread is just plain good! Breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Both are inexpensive, easy to fix, and versatile. If you can think it up it probably can go into your next pot of beans or pan of cornbread. Lime-Cilantro Beans. Photo used under creative commons from Qfamily

The Best-Ever EASY Baked Bean Recipe NEW!
A Cheater Recipe For Baked Beans
The best-ever EASY baked beans recipe really is EASY and it really is YUMMY and, confession time, it is a cheater recipe or a concoction. By that I mean, you start with CANNED BAKED BEANS. (Don't tell anyone.) Canned items are not usually something I cook with. However, sometimes, when I am preparing a number of side dishes for a summer BBQ, I like to take a shortcut and these baked beans are one of the shortcut recipes I use. Originally seen on Martha Stewart Living more than a decade ago, ...

Cheapest Foods In America
Cheap Foods~!
These foods are not all healthy but one thing they do have in common is price. They are cheap and easy to get no matter what your budget is. These are the foods you can stock up on for hard times because you never know what might happen in the coming future. Being prepared is a need, think ahead and keep our economy in mind while shopping.