Go ahead-eat the cookie dough. Flourless chocolate chip cookie dough bites are made with chick peas but taste (almost) the same.

Sloppy Joe Lettuce Wraps made with lean ground turkey, black beans, flavorful vegetables smothered in a sweet tangy sauce.

Brazilian Style Beans

This Mediterranean Tuna Salad is a great, healthy way to have dinner on the table in no time! It’s great stuffed in pita bread too!

Loaded Sweet Potato Skins: Black beans, corn and Mexican cheese give these sweet potato skins a Southwest kick.

Blanched green beans tossed with a parsley almond pesto topped with a poached egg.

A crunchy salad of green beans, fresh figs, walnuts and goat cheese.

Layers of crispy tortilla chips, beans, and cheese make this casserole a crowd-pleaser even without the meat!

Edamame pan fried with toasted sesame oil and soy, and charred to perfection!

Beef chili – the best I’ve ever made, plus a bonus recipe for The Chili Philosopher’s cornbread that this LA based food truck gave me.

Spicy Chicken Lime Soup: packed full of chicken, chorizo, black beans, tomatoes and homemade roasted hatch green chiles.

Makes saying goodbye a bit easier: Late summer bounty minestrone (in German)

Thyme Roasted Chicken with Potatoes and Green Beans

Vegan Broad beans or avarakkai/semphalli sambar is tangy Southern Indian style sambar, goes perfectly with rice.

Green beans, brussels sprouts & grains tossed in a minty tahini dressing.

Sweet and Savory Three Bean Salad

Traditional Hunan steamed fish w/ salted chilies, black beans, and tofu – an amazingly delicious, simple dish!

Drunken noodles with tofu and peppers

Easy Slow Cooker Chili Con Carne Cheese Fries.

This stir fry is SPICY! Green Beans are paired with nutty nameko mushrooms and served with grilled shishito peppers.

Aromatic Moroccan pumpkin soup Gordon Ramsay. (in Polish)

Lightly spiced dry fried runner beans. Flavored with mustard & cumin seeds, turmeric, garam masala and chilli.