With 2011 mere hours away, food preparation often includes black-eyed peas hoping for good luck throughout the year. I’ve already got some soaking for tomorrow’s meal.
Consider this Butter Beans with Caramelized Onions and Bacon recipe from The Kitchn a practice run. Granted, butter beans are not peas, and peas are not beans, but they are both classified as legumes, or vegetables that produce pods which split open along a seam to reveal a row of seeds. Despite growing up on Mom’s lentil soup at least twice a month, I feel I don’t eat beans and peas often enough these days; specifically the dried type, which require overnight soaking, an extra (albeit very easy) step that undoubtedly prevents myself and others from frequent preparation. I actually have to think ahead? Continue reading
Bread gets a bad rap. Unfairly so.
