UC Davis Dry Bean Field Day
It’s that time of year again! UC Davis Dry Bean Field Day Thursday, August 20, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. until noon at the UC Davis Agronomy Farm. Join Paul Gepts’s “Bean Team” and their collaborators for a tour of their common bean and lima bean field projects at the UC Davis Agronomy Field Headquarters […]
California Beans Instagram Giveaway!
How do you store your dry beans? Enter to win our bean cookbook giveaway on Instagram! The prize is two cookbooks: the Spilling the Beans cookbook and the Bean By Bean: A Cookbook along with an “I Love Beans” apron!! The rules to enter this giveaway are as follows: 1. Follow @californiabeans on Instagram. 2. […]
Camping One Pot Dutch Oven Bean Dish
I love to cook with cast iron cookware. My husband and I have been collecting Griswold cast iron since he gave me a #3 skillet for Christmas one year when we were dating (he has always been very practical!). We collected so many skillets over the years that both our children have complete sets from […]
Featured Chef: Jesus Alcelay
Meet Chef Jesus Alcelay of the Cottonwood Grille in Boise, Idaho! Chef Jesus Alcelay is passionate about food and cooking — and he gives all the credit for his incredible skills to his mother, Felisa. At 9, he began learning traditional Basque dishes at her side in her kitchen in their hometown of Oñati, […]
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 […]
We’ve teamed up with Bush’s® Beans to giveaway $250 in coupons and racing gear!
Love Sprint Cup Racing and beans? Then we have a contest for you! California Beans has teamed up with Bush’s® for our Bean-A-Licious recipe contest. You have a choice of five…count them five…wonderful Bush’s® bean recipes to choose from for a chance to win $250 in Bush’s® coupons and racing gear from JTG Daughterty pro […]
Colcannon made with California Baby Limas
Traditional Irish dish colcannon made with potatoes, cabbage and baby lima beans.
February is for your heart health and beans!
When I think of February, I always think of hearts. Valentine’s Day is a big part of that, of course, but I also think of heart disease awareness and the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign. Heart disease isn’t just a man’s disease. Did you know that 1 in 3 women die from […]
Healthier New You in the New Year
Did you make a new years resolution to eat healthier? After enjoying all the cookies and candies over the Christmas holidays did the scale inch up a few pounds? Mine sure did. I’m at the age were the extra pounds don’t come off as easy as they used to. With the help of pre-made healthy […]
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 […]