Until I went off to college and became a vegetarian out of financial necessity, beans really weren't a part of my life. But once I found myself pinching pennies while sharing a house with three other ...

Making baked beans from scratch isn't fast, but it is easy. Though the dry beans do need to be soaked overnight, then baked for a couple hours, actual hands-on cooking time is just about 15 minutes.

You probably already know that there's a difference between dried beans and canned beans, but the prospect of cooking beans from scratch can be overwhelming. Dried beans might be cheaper and tastier, ...

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease a baking dish with oil.

Cooking beans from scratch seems to be wreathed in controversy, although I’m not entirely sure why. First of all, while I know that canned beans are readily available, they really aren’t worth using, ...