New Orleanians ate red beans and rice on Mondays because it was laundry day, and they cooked their red beans on the stove while the wash water heated. Or maybe it’s because they needed to use the ...

Stewing dried beans may sound like a big project, but the percentage of passive cooking is much greater than the active cooking, which makes this recipe perfect for a day spent at home. Borrowing from ...

Serve these mushroom patties atop a salad or grain bowl, or turn them into sliders. Cheryl Slocum is a James Beard Award-winning food writer, editor, and recipe developer. She has spent over 16 years ...

Growing up in Los Angeles, so much of what I ate for dinner was a hodgepodge of different cultures. On Tuesday nights, gringo-styled tacos with cumin-scented ground beef and chunky stripes of sharp ...

In Louisiana, red beans and rice are a Monday meal tradition, a classic example of Creole cuisine. Families often cook red beans and rice on Monday, utilizing leftover ham bones from Sunday dinner. -- ...

The just-republished "Buster Holmes Restaurant Cookbook: New Orleans Handmade Cookin'" ($16.95, Pelican Publishing) has two recipes for red beans and rice, for which Buster Holmes was famous. The ...