rancho gordo Archives - The Taste Edit

February 19, 2017

How to Cook Dried Beans

How to make beans Italian Style by The Taste Edit

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 to canned beans. The texture of dried beans is so much better, and the cooking liquid from the beans is a great addition to soups... Continue Reading

June 20, 2016

Zazu Kitchen + Farm BBQ Baked Beans

The Taste Edit makes Zuzu Kitchen + Farm's bbq baked beans.

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 pulled pork sandwich. They were amazing, and tasted like a cross between chili and baked beans. Chef Coahan was kind enough to share the recipe. ... Continue Reading

May 19, 2016

White Bean Salad with Arugula and Grana Padano

The Taste Edit serves their recipe for white bean salad, arugula, and grana padano

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 until the last minute and then it’s a rush to come up with something. We’re being proactive this year and coming up with a list... Continue Reading

May 12, 2016

Posole

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 day. We love Rancho Gordo’s Heirloom Bean cookbook. Everything we’ve ever made out of it has been delicious. One of the first things we ever... Continue Reading

March 17, 2016

Marcella Beans with Sausage and Beet Greens

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 other greens like kale or swiss chard. Most people aren’t concerned with how their beet tops look because they are just shopping for the bottom... Continue Reading

January 12, 2016

Ribollita: A Hearty Tuscan Soup

With the cold, rainy weather lately in San Francisco, a hearty winter soup seemed particularly appropriate. We first tried ribollita at one of our favorite restaurants in Florence, Cibrèo, where it was described as “soup so thick, you eat it with a fork.” We’ve researched many recipes for ribollita, and found, as this article states, that “rivers of ink... Continue Reading

July 24, 2015

PEPPER ROULETTE

Before we moved to California, our friend Hardy introduced us to a lot of things that were common in California but hard to find in Chicago, including Rancho Gordo beans and padrone peppers. If you can’t find these, look for shisito peppers. We found a basket of padrones at the Napa Farmers Market and brought them... Continue Reading