Side Dish, Beans and Grain Recipes

Finnish Summer Soup recipe

Awesome Black Beans and Rice recipe

This is the basic recipe for cooking lentils or beans. Many southern and southwestern regional recipes call for cooked lentils or beans to be stirred gently into a dish near the end of cooking. Therefore, it may be a good idea ot make them a day ahead and have them ready when you begin the actual cooking.

A quick, easy and tasty soup is also very light, serve it with some crusty bread to make a whole meal.

Hot Black Bean and Corn Salad

A simple yet tasty garbanzo bean salad.

A delicious way to enjoy chickpeas.

The secret to tender baked beans is to leave the salt out until they are finished cooking. For some reason, salt toughens them. To pamper your tummy, rinse off the beans when they are finished soaking in several changes of cold water. This recipe is easy to prepare ahead and cooks in only two hours.

Favorite Navy Bean Soup recipe

A new but scrumptious side dish that can be served with baked fish or a pot roast.