Eat Black-Eye Peas for Good Luck All Year Long!
These little one-eyed wonders are known by different names: black-eye peas, beans, or cowpeas. Whatever you call them in your neck of the woods, and however you fix them, they are delicious! Eating black-eye peas is a Southern New Year’s Day tradition that is supposed to grant you prosperity during the coming year; however, eating […]
California Beans Winter Giveaway!
Winter Giveaway Time! What’s Your Favorite Way to Eat Beans? Enter to win a free $400 Amazon gift card from California Beans. It’s easy! Just head to our Facebook page, follow the arrow on our cover photo to the Sign Up button, click and choose what way you like to eat beans! Please share this […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Mary Parsons!
Mary Parsons of Flavorrd is a food enthusiast and registered dietitian. Biology was her field of choice in college, but her experiments in the kitchen led her to combine her love of science and food in a master’s degree in nutrition. This Florida native is now living in San Diego and working for Healthy Dining […]
Meet our Featured Food Blogger Alyssa!
Alyssa Brantley develops delicious recipes that are easy to master. Not only is her website, Everyday Maven, filled with amazing dishes, but she has conveniently categorized them so you can find exactly what you need — beans, diet, points, dairy free, gluten free, grain free, nut free, and more! Each dish is coded with little […]
Do You Know Your White Beans?
Navy, Great Northern and cannellini beans are often confused for each other — but luckily, no matter which bean you choose, you’ll wind up with a tasty dish! These white bean varieties can be interchanged in recipes. Here’s a quick guide. Great Northern beans are twice the size of navy beans and have a mild […]
Meet our Featured Food Blogger Joey Bruno!
Joey Bruno is co-owner of Thrive Cuisine. Cooking healthy, delicious, plant-based meals has been Joey’s true passion since he went vegan in 2015. He has a master’s degree in nutrition and food science and is committed to making the internet a place of education and knowledge rather than misinformation and click bait. He currently lives […]
Kidney Beans: Three Versatile and Delicious Recipes
Native to Central America and Mexico, these little kidney-shaped beans are a wonderful source of protein and fiber. Several beans are a rich maroon color and have a meaty flavor, which makes them perfect for salads and soups. This popular variety is found almost exclusively in cans. Light red kidney beans are similar in size […]
Meet Allie & Dan of Love and Risotto!
Newlyweds Allie and Dan love to relax after work by creating and cooking delicious dishes together and sharing them on their blog Love and Risotto. Allie is a farmer’s daughter. In fact, she’s a BEAN farmer’s daughter! Her dad, Dave Richter grows beans in Knights Landing in Yolo County. Dave also serves on the California […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Serena Ball!
Serena Ball, co-creator of the website The Recipe ReDux, a registered dietitian and health blogger community, likes the new and trendy way to use the bean brine from garbanzos called aguafaba. Cooking with aguafaba is about the most fun she has had in the kitchen in a long time! (For more info on aguafaba read […]
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 […]