Category: Beans

• Lemony shrimp and bean stew — a mouthful of sunshine

  It’s an easy, healthy supper with a taste like a mouthful of sunshine — bright, in other words — and perfect for isolating at my country house (also my only house).

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 30, 2020

  Beans, Easy entrees, New York Times recipes, Soup

  Fresh lemon, parsley, Shrimp, Watsontown PA, White beans

• Best bean salad ever — sweet corn’s the secret

  For as long as beans have been in my life, I’ve eaten bean salad. My mother made it with canned beans and bottled Italian dressing. Stoic’s mother made a big batch once when she and his father were leaving town on a trip, and Stoic ended up ice skating on bean salad after he dropped…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 29, 2019

  Beans, healthy cooking, Salad, Summer salads, Sweet corn

  Corn, Our State magazine, Peppers, Samin Nosrat “Salt Fat Acid Heat”

• And I don’t like chard . . .

    A young friend who’s working harder than any human bean should have to, says clients buying her family farm’s CSA subscriptions often ask what to do with chard. You can cook it like fresh spinach or you can take a couple of extra steps to fix this Lebanese Swiss chard from therecipehunters.com. It may…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 12, 2017

  Beans, Cooking from the garden, good food, healthy cooking, Local food, Seasonal food, therecipehunters.com, vegetables

  Canary beans, chard, cooking from garden, Garlic, Josephine’s Swiss chard and black eyed peas recipe, onions, parsley, Spinach

• Holiday time machine; 12 vegetables of Christmas

  Is there any more effective time machine than a Christmas tree? The first ornament that was mine and only mine was given to me by my maternal grandmother, Christmas of 1952. I pull out that silver cardboard horse to hang it up and, bam!, I’m 7 years old in Watsontown, PA, waiting with dread for the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  December 10, 2016

  Asian food, Beans, Emo eating, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating, vegetables

  cooking from garden, green beans, healthy eating, Sambal Oelek, Vegetables

• C.S. Lewis, gluttony and white bean dip

  For our Lenten reading/discussion, a few of us read C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” (1941). I only made it to one discussion but I did enjoy reading this, especially the devil’s letter on gluttony. Old Screwtape reminds his nephew Wormwood that there are two types of gluttony: Gluttony of delicacy and that of excess. Holy…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 12, 2014

  Appetizers, Beans, Family, Lemons, Lent

  C.S. Lewis, Dips, Gluttony, Olive oil, Oregano, Pita bread, Rosemary, The Screwtape Letters

• Happy Valentine’s Day!

  Should I admit I don’t mind being snowed in? Perfect excuse not to go to the gym, nor for long walks. Perfect time to plow through piles of old pictures, to take some new ones with my new camera, to finish one book and begin another. Plus, our energy-inefficient house is all windows looking out…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 14, 2014

  Beans, Casseroles, good food, healthy cooking, Simple foods, Winter

  Beans, Carrots, Garlic, Nova’s Bakery, onions, Taste of Home magazine, Turkey sausage

• A healthy balance; slow-cooker beans and rice

  People magazine’s Harley Pasternak wrote this week about an Iowa high school science teacher who lost almost 40 pounds, eating only at  McDonald’s for 90 days. (That’s 2 months longer than documentarian Morgan Spurlock, who made “Super Size Me” about his experience.). The secret, said Pasternak, was this dieter’s sense of balance. He ate everything…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 11, 2014

  Balance, Beans, Rice, Slow cooker recipes

  Cooking Lite magazine, Fast food, Harley Pasternak, People magazine