Frijoles Charros

Frijoles charros, or “cowboy beans”, is a traditional Mexican soup featuring pinto beans and bacon.

Fazulovika

Fazulovika is a thick Slovak soup, made with smoked meat and beans, flavored with paprika and marjoram, and usually thickened with a roux, or mixture of cream and flour.

Asopao de Pollo Dominicano

Asopao is a popular type of rice soup across the Caribbean. This version uses chicken, and is based on Dominican recipes.

Caldo Gallego

Caldo Gallego is a Spanish soup featuring beans, chorizo, smoked pork, potato, turnip and leafy greens, traditionally the leaves from the turnips.

Home Canned Baked Beans

Home canned baked beans is a recipe for making your own canned baked beans at home, from scratch.

Beanpot

A beanpot is a cooking vessel designed for cooking dishes like baked beans that simmer away in the oven for hours at a time.

Sweet and Sticky Pork and Beans Revisited

American canned pork and beans are known for containing very little pork. Here’s a recipe to doctor them up into something more exciting. Oh, and also a weird and wacky story from Wales.

Fèves au Lard

Fèves au lard is the French Canadian version of baked beans, sweetened with maple syrup and molasses.

Boston Baked Beans Revisited

Boston baked beans are a classic American dish. White beans are flavored with salt pork and molasses, and slowly baked for many hours.