Bean lovers, rejoice! Once limited to soups, crockpot sides, and picnic salads, beans are now the shining star of everything from one-pan dinners to creamy dips. But while they are incredibly varied ...

Frijoles refritos are a traditional Mexican dish made from cooked and mashed beans. They are commonly served as a side dish or used as a filling in various Mexican recipes. Frijoles refritos are ...

It’s a welcome tune to a frazzled cook’s ears. Purists might argue that cooked-from-scratch beans are better, insisting that canned beans are saltier and more expensive. True, but dried beans ...

Cooking beans from scratch (or dried) gives you the opportunity to impart more flavor into the beans as they cook, as well as better control over their texture. But in this busy world we live in ...