Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed – Don’t Forget the Beans!
Mother’s Day celebrations can be traced back to the Greeks and Romans, who held festivals to honor and pay homage to the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele. These festivals were held in the springtime, which symbolized rebirth and the fertility of the land and lasted several days with dancing, parades and games. In the United […]
It’s a Beaniful Christmas!
It’s a Beaniful Christmas! It doesn’t feel like Christmas until the music coming from my iPod is Bing Crosby’s White Christmas and every space on my kitchen counters are full of baking ingredients. When I was growing up my mother made a cake, pie or batch of cookies from scratch everyday. I learned to bake […]
We are thankful for beans!
Happy Thanksgiving! I love Thanksgiving! It’s a holiday centered around food and family, my two favorite things. When I was a child, the only time we ever had turkey for dinner was on this holiday — and it was always special. Our family would gather at our house or one of my aunt’s houses. The […]
Meet our “Bean Sack” Blog contributor Marilyn Sarasqueta!
Before I was a wife and mother I was a farmer’s daughter. My dad, grandfather and uncle started out growing dry land Lima beans in the Los Angeles area of California. My grandfather Federico Beltran is the one on the left. This was taken in the Baldwin Hills area. They were taking the Lima bean […]