One of our most memorable food experiences in Florence was eating at Fabio Picchi’s Ristorante Cibreo (you can see more from when we visited here). When we learned that Picchi…
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Cooking with dried beans is one of the easiest ways to improve your food. Once you learn how to cook dried beans and taste the difference, you’ll never go back…
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It’s been raining cats and dogs in San Francisco, so a hearty soup was called for. We wanted to make something vegetarian that we could make a lot of and freeze.…
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Everything we tried at Zazu Kitchen + Farm was delicious, including the cocktails (read more here), but the highlight of our lunch was the beans that came with the…
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A few years ago we ate at Cibrèo Ristorante in Florence. One of the many dishes we had at the start of our meal was this fresh salad of fava beans and cheese.…
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We love hummus (see our recipe here) and eat it almost every day, but for a recent Farm House dinner, we wanted an appetizer with an Italian twist. White Bean Crostini was…
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Summer means cookouts and picnics, and whenever we’re invited to one it always seems like we’re asked to bring a side dish. It seems like we always end up waiting…
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Craving Mexican? Try posole. It’s a Mexican soup (more like a chili) based on beans and hominy. It’s one of our favorite things to make on a cold or cloudy…
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We found beautiful beets from Dirty Girl Produce recently at the CUESA Farmer’s Market. We love purchasing beets whole because the tops are actually edible and a delicious substitute for…
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We eat a lot of hummus and found we were spending way too much money on store bought containers of it, so we started making our own at home. This…
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We like to make heirloom dried beans from Rancho Gordo. We like to make beans in an electric pressure cooker. We use this one that our friends George and Stacy gave…