This recipe is from my friend Becky and is absolutely the best white chili I’ve ever tasted. I’m not the only one who thinks this. I made this recipe for our church’s Chili Cook-Off and won second place! Ingredients: 2 15-oz cans white beans, drained and rinsed 2 lbs chicken, cooked and cut into ½”…
Have you ever had one of those weeks? The week where everything seems to go wrong and you find your finances, time and patience put to the test? Maybe you’re having a busy week shuttling kids to activities two or three times a day, lots of home and garden chores plus a rush of other…
I can’t decide what the best part of this recipe is—that takes less than 10 minutes to prepare or the yummy combination of blue cheese and buffalo wing spiciness. Try this recipe just once and it is sure to become a family favorite. The recipe calls for canned navy beans, but of course, if you…
(If you’re new to cooking with dry beans, read up on everything you need to know about dry beans here.) Lemon and tarragon give this easy-to-make soup a bright flavor. If you use canned chickpeas, it cooks up in less than 20 minutes. But I recommend using chickpeas you’ve cooked yourself–the flavor and texture are…
When lemons go on sale in the winter, buy a whole bunch and preserve them. Preserved lemons will last a year, or more. At least that’s the theory. I don’t really know, because there are so many wonderful ways to use preserved lemons that they never last more then a few months in our house.…
Broth (also call stock) is a mineral-rich infusion made by boiling bones along with vegetables, herbs and spices. Every five-star restaurant has a stock pot of broth simmering on the back burner, ready to use in their best recipes. It has been a mainstay of human diets for centuries because it is such an inexpensive…