Meet Our Featured Dietitians…The Nutrition Twins!

Tammy Lakatos Shames and Lyssie Lakatos, “The Nutrition Twins®,” love beans so much that they can’t choose their favorite variety! In their practice as registered dietitians and personal trainers, they encourage clients to incorporate beans into their diets as a of versatile and economical source of plant-based protein. They also love that beans contain fiber, […]

Meet our Featured Dietitian, Jill Nussinow!

Jill Nussinow is a bean lover and loves to teach others how to cook beans that make them taste great so that they will eat them every day of the week! Jill Nussinow, aka The Veggie Queen™, is what she calls a hybrid – a Registered Dietitian and a culinary educator who has been teaching […]

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 […]

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 […]

Barbeque and Beans

Barbeque and Beans My dad loved to barbeque. His specialty was lamb, although he would sometimes cook chicken. He never was in the kitchen to cook except to make his marinade. He would take out his cutting board and cleaver and make fast work mincing garlic, parsley and rosemary as the base for his marinade. […]