Split Pea Soup

Pea soup has probably been around for about 10,000 years, since peas where one of the first crops to be domesticated. This recipe features tender carrots and ham.

Jota

Jota is a soup made with beans, smoked pork, and sauerkraut, which hails from the Istrian peninsula at the northeastern end of the Adriatic.

Pretepena Juha od Grahova

Pretepena Juha od Grahova is a Croatian bean soup thickened with a mixture of flour and sour cream.

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.