Oh How I love Black-Eyed Peas
Guest writer Jill Nussinow,MS, RD is The Veggie Queen and served as a guest blogger, expressing her love for black-eyed peas and her pressure cooking methods! I can’t recall exactly when I first heard about eating black-eyed peas for good luck in the new year but think that it was when I lived in South […]
Meet Akhil Shah of Chutney Chefs
Did you know that traditional Indian food uses garbanzo beans, black-eyed peas, kidney beans and garbanzo bean flour in most dishes – and with all variety type of dishes? Although Akhil Shah isn’t a chef, he founded Chutney Chefs, an Indian cuisine gourmet meal delivery service based in Plainfield, New Jersey. His five talented chefs […]
Meet our Featured Chef Mohini Singh
Chef Mohini Singh cooked her first meal at the age of 7. It was in her native Fiji, outside on an open fire under a mango tree, and she prepared a blackeyed pea curry with tomatoes, cilantro, roti, an Indian flat bread, and lots of love. She inherited her love of cooking from her mother, […]
Blackeyed Peas are Good Luck and Good for You!
This New Year found me seeking out tried-and-true recipes from the circa-1990 Cooking with California Dry Beans Cookbook. Eating blackeyed peas is a Southern New Year’s Day tradition that is supposed to grant you prosperity during the coming year. The Jewish New Year doesn’t start until October, but blackeyes are eaten at Rosh Hashana for […]
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 […]