Contents

INTRODUCTION

Classic Southern Dishes

Red Beans and Rice

Drunken Beans

Crock Pot Pinto Beans

Ranch-Style Beans (Frijoles Charros)

White Bean and Chicken Chili

Southern Baked Beans

Muslim Bean Pie

Nancie McDermott’s Soup Bean Pie

Hoppin’ John

Southern Caviar

Perre’s Pickled Field Peas

Pink-Eyed Peas, Corn, Tomato, and Bacon Salad

Purple Hull Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette

Heirloom Emily Lee Peas

Fried Bean Cakes

Beth Weigand’s Six-Week Peas

Beth Weigand’s Six-Week Peas with Tomato Salad

Dixie Lees with Ham

Succotash

Butter Bean, Corn, and Tomato Salad

Butter Beans with Butter and Parsley

Mess of Peas

Pole Beans with Potatoes and Double-Smoked Bacon

Half Runners with Seasoning

New Southern Dishes

Mean Bean Burgers with Chipotle Mayo

Black Bean “Sombreros” with Avocado Crema

White Bean Salad with Raisins and Ginger

Simmered Black-Eyed Peas with Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomato Stacks with Pea Salsa and Imitation Crabmeat

Yellow-Eyed Peas with Tasso and Sofrito

Purple Hull and Benne Seed Hummus

Speckled Butter Bean Ceviche with Grilled Shrimp

Green Bean, White Lima Bean, and Andouille Ragout with Rice

Smoky New Potato, Green Bean, and Bacon Salad

Jill Warren Lucas’s Dilly Beans

Virginia Willis’s Bon Appetit Y’all Green Beans

Pickled Green Beans Escabeche

Baby Butter Bean Crostini

International Dishes

Gallo Pinto

Black Beans and Broth with Herbed Croutons

Cuban Black Bean Soup

Bean, Avocado, and Roasted Red Pepper Quesadillas

Classic Refried Pinto or Black Beans

The Big Pot of Minestrone

Classic Pasta e Fagiole

Black-Eyed Pea and Dill Salad

Acarajés (Black-Eyed Pea Fritters)

Puerto Rican Rice and Pigeon Peas

Butter Bean Risotto

Lebanese Green Beans with Tomatoes (Loubia B’zeit)

Salade Niçoise My Way

Acknowledgments

Index

SIDEBARS

Fred Sauceman’s Leather Britches

Cooking Beans

How to Freeze Southern Peas

How to Cook Southern Peas

Volume Equivalents for One Pound of Peas or Beans