Baked Fish with Tomatoes and Olives on a Bed of Pureed Cassoulet Beans
Anissa Helou's Feast: Foood of the Islamic World (Ecco Press, 2018) is a great book and you should have it in your personal library. It's big, beautiful and full of...
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We Get Letters: Can You Oversoak Your Beans?
In our last Rancho Gordo newsletter, I made this comment: I was looking through our customer reviews on ranchogordo.com and in general, the feedback is the kind of thing most...
Too Much Corn? Leftover Beans? Soup Is On the Way
Between the farmers markets, my own vegetable garden, and sloppy refrigerator housekeeping, I often end up with too many vegetables. This week it was too much corn. The result was...
Dinner Party: Fish Tamales in Soup with Garbanzos and Zucchini
I keep experimenting with this concept and it keeps getting better. It started by my seeing a clay pot of these fish tamales in both in Morelia, Mexico. I've attempted...
Cassoulet Bean Soup with Guanciale and Capers
This was a winner. I only took notes so I don't have a proper recipe for you but I bet you can manage and maybe even make this better. Leftover...
I Apologize in Advance: Other People's Gardens
I'm going to take a guess and say that seeing other people's gardens is almost as interesting as cat photos, as in, not at all. But please indulge me. This...
More Smoking: Tomatillos
The experiments with smoke continue. Previously I smoked plum tomatoes with great success. Now we're testing tomatillos. After peeling off the husk, I quartered them and smoked them with cherry...
Smoked Tomatoes With a Great New Toy
You know I love a new toy. I've written about clay donabe pieces from Toiro before and I'm strictly a tourist. The pots are an investment but for someone like...
Recipe: Carrot and Mayocoba Soup
As always, some of the best dishes come from trying to use up leftovers. I’ve been on a carrot kick. I like them. I want to love them, but they...
Rancho Gordo Goes to Alta Baja with More Stars than in the Heavens!
Rancho Gordo Supper in Orange County to Highlight Heirloom Mexican Beans, Support High School Art Program On Sunday, July 8, Rancho Gordo, renowned purveyor of heirloom beans, will hold its...
The Aftermath of the Napa Fires: Some Hope
It feels pretentious and corny for me of all people to talk about hope but I came across this scene at the base of the redwoods at my place. We...
