A Week’s Worth of Black Beans Without Any Boredom

You may think it’d be impossible to eat black beans every day for five days without getting bored, but beans are so versatile, you won’t believe what you’ll be able to come up with. If you need some inspiration, here are my favorite ways to make additi…

You may think it'd be impossible to eat black beans every day for five days without getting bored, but beans are so versatile, you won't believe what you'll be able to come up with. If you need some inspiration, here are my favorite ways to make additions and variations to a big pile of black beans to get you through the workweek.


5 Days of Beans

Day 1

Make the beans! And take a look below at how I doctor them up.

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Faux-Blanching Is the Cooking Technique We Didn’t Know We Needed

It all started the first time I was lured by a tri-color bag of string beans at a farmers market—the purple, green, and yellow electric against each other.

I brought them home so pumped to make a salad. I cleaned each one, getting more and more excite…

It all started the first time I was lured by a tri-color bag of string beans at a farmers market—the purple, green, and yellow electric against each other.

I brought them home so pumped to make a salad. I cleaned each one, getting more and more excited as each color passed through my fingers. Then I blanched them and what had been neon purple turned to grey-green. I was pissed off in a way that is, admittedly, unreasonable.

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