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 […]

Roasted Garlic White Bean Dip

The cabin kids circa 1980’s Since the late 1970’s my husband and I along with 4 other couples have been going to a cabin in the Sierra’s. Built in the late 1930’s the cabin is rustic, simple and much loved by all who have enjoyed spending time there during the years. The “cabin crew” as […]

Mother’s Day Gift from the Heart (and Lima Beans)

I love crafting!  Craft, hardware and office supply stores are my favorite places to shop. When my children were young I always had plenty of supplies for them to draw, paint and glue to their hearts content.  Crafting is a wonderful way for children to develop fine motor skills and to let their imagination run […]

Vegetarian Chana Masala

My name is Kulpreet and I am a marketing coordinator at Ali Cox & Company. My family lives in the Central Valley of California and is originally from Punjab, India. Beans such as garbanzos, black eyed peas, lima beans, and kidney beans are a common ingredient in most Indian Recipes! Chana Masala is a vegetarian and […]