Meet our Featured Dietitian Emily Kyle!
Emily Kyle, founder of Emily Kyle Nutrition, is always looking for new ways to encourage her patients at Highland Hospital to get more beans into their diets. Emily loves them not only because they’re versatile, but also because they’re an affordable nutritional powerhouse. Eating a serving of beans every day adds fiber, protein, and a […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Alexandra Caspero!
Alexandra believes that beans are one of the healthiest foods! As the owner of Delish Knowledge, her goal is to make healthier eating simple and accessible. Alexandra is a registered dietitian, yoga teacher, and vegetable lover. She specializes in plant-based diets (beans!), weight management and sports nutrition. She recommends beans to her clients because they […]
Meet our Featured Chef J Jackson!
Chef J Jackson, a private chef based in Washington, D.C., started experimenting in the kitchen at a young age. But it took a successful — but unfulfilling — career in finance for him to ditch the suit and tie for the kitchen. In 2008 he created his catering and event planning firm, Entrée Metropolitan, which […]
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 […]
Homemade Bean Flour Your New Best Friend!
I have to admit I am still intimidated by bean flour. Using it is a new experience for me. Since 2016 is the International Year of the Pulse, I thought I would try my hand at experimenting with making homemade bean flour and baking with it. Do you have old dried beans in your pantry […]
Giveaway with Dietitian Sharon Palmer,RDN
Plant Powered Giveaway with Sharon Palmer, RDN.
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, […]
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
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 […]