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 […]
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 […]
Brown Bagging it with Beans!
Brown Bag Lunch with Beans
Featured Chef: Michael Goularte of Galletto Ristorante
Meet Chef Michael Goularte of Galletto Ristorante in Modesto, California.
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 […]
Touchdown! Super Bowl Bean Dips!
I am definitely showing my age, but I remember vividly the first Super Bowl on January 15, 1967. My dad and brothers were excited about this football battle between the best NFL and AFL teams. As I recall we didn’t know if it would be a onetime event and here we are 47 years later […]