Sweet Potato and Black Bean Enchiladas

Bourbon vanilla bean creme anglaise- the perfect sauce to kick up any dessert.

Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies, whole wheat with browned butter and vanilla bean.

Black-eyed peas in tomato gravy – simple and easy.

Bourbon Salted Caramel Sauce

Gluten and dairy free, this 17 bean and turkey bacon soup won’t disappoint during the chilly winter!

My daughter’s award winning chili; not too hot and not too tame; Mom thinks ‘just right!’

Learn my Mapo Tofu that was handed down to me from my Sichuan family.

Running late for dinner but want something healthier than takeout and just as delicious? Black Bean Burritos to the rescue!

Turkey cutlets with radish and bean sprouts. (in Italian)

A triple dose of vanilla in these cupcakes, stuffed with a luscious vanilla bean pudding!

Triple Vanilla Blondies – incredible to say the least!

Minestrone soup chock full of healthy veggies, beans and pasta. The perfect winter comfort food!

Chocolate sesame pots de crème

Pink vanilla bean celebration cake with rainbow sprinkles.

Cheaters Fried Ice Cream – in my opinion it’s the new greatest way to make fried ice cream and not to mention so perfectly delicious!

A classic vanilla bean ice cream.

It is Flu and Cold season. Tomato and Cannellini Bean Soup is a very fast meal to put together that will begin comfort and healing.

Buffalo Black Bean Dip – A vegetarian, gluten free, 15 minute game day snack.

Chipotle Black Bean Stuffed Delicata Squash

Vanilla Bean Marshmallows are soft and pillowy, with an intensely vanilla flavor profile.

Fresh-squeezed vanilla-rosemary lemonade