Here’s an old-fashioned pleasure: shelling beans. We grew a hefty crop of lima beans in a our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. I let them dry on the vine and finally just the other day got around to removing the beans from the pods. I […]
To some of you, this is probably going to sound like a cheap catering trick. Most likely, it is. But when I asked my wife, the catering chef, how she thought I should make rice for 90 people for tomorrow’s “Parents Night” dinner where I teach “food appreciation,” she didn’t hesitate. “Do it in the […]
The inspiration for this soup was a hunk of butternut squash sitting unused at the bottom of the crisper drawer and a 1-pound bag of dried black beans that came back from one of my “food appreciation” classes. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of butternut squash and black […]
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