ALL MY BEAN RECIPES

Just over 200 Pages of Beans, Beans, and More Beans

A couple of weeks ago, I put up an article on the many kinds of beans that one can grow in a garden. It included everything from the most familiar of them all, the green bean, to oddballs such as winged beans, adzuki beans, and tepary beans.

In that article, I did mention the culinary values of each bean. I also intended to follow up that article with a companion bean recipe on the “A Chef’s Garden Recipes” Tab.

Except two things: 1. I couldn’t decide on exactly which bean recipe to post and 2. My wife and I had just decided to start adding more beans to our diets (just a coincidence).

So I made the decision to gather up all the bean recipes I had created, collected, tweaked, and borrowed from friends and students over the last 30-some years. Yes, I cook at home. A lot. But more than that, I taught cooking as a culinary arts instructor (handing out thousands of recipes) and I cooked professionally as a line cook and all the way up to Executive Chef (creating and cooking hundreds of recipes). I even created a restaurant, the “Tepary Grill,” for a resort (and yes, it had a few recipes made with tepary beans). Enough pats on the back.

In looking for bean recipes from what turned out to be a long list (over 150 recipes) I realized that I couldn’t choose just one for posting.

What I finally did was to gather up those 150+ bean recipes and then I arranged them into “Course” categories:

• Basics

• Appetizers

• Salads

• Soups

• Chilies (the Stews)

• Pasta

• And Rice

• Baked

• Other Bean Sides

• Vegetarian Mains

• Mains with other proteins

• Sweet Beans

And I put them all into one file: “All My Bean Recipes.”

I will, I hope soon, select a recipe or two from that collection to post for all readers.

In the meantime, though, I have had to make the decision to post a downloadable pdf version of that entire collection below (after the paywall) to share with paid subscribers, only. They do get perks.

With power comes great responsibility, however. I’m asking the Paid Subscribers to read through all of these recipes, to cook all of these recipes, and then report to me with a list of your favorites, with constructive criticism, and with your own heavy-on-beans recipes that I may add to this collection to share to the world (some day). Fair?

Thank you for reading this far.