I'm such a lucky fellow to have such smart customers and readers. Paula was reading about my adventures with our new Black Eyed Peas and sent the following. You'll want to take notes and make plans to head straight to the market and pick up some collard greens after you read this: Hey out there in bean land! I was thinking about your article on Black Eyed Peas and wanted to share a couple more things with you. First, black eyed peas make fabulous hummus. Use them instead of garbanzos in your favorite recipe and substitute balsamic vinegar for the...

Like a lot of you, I make Posole over the holidays. Last year I made mine for New Year's Eve and as I was making it, I started laughing at the smells that come out of the kitchen. How can anything smell this wonderful? How can anything be this easy? I soaked the pozole in water overnight and on the morning of the dinner, I added it to my slow cooker and covered it by about 3 inches of water and then went to work. When I came home, the whole house smelled of nixtamal and the individual kernels had...