Fast Easy Recipes

Beans swaggon unbelievably economical, nutritious
Posted Jan. 10, 2012, at 5:16 p.m. We need a beans swaggon revival. What a warm and comforting, richly beany, chowder-like dish. A couple of weeks ago Bev Bubar wrote to say that she remembered her grandmother cooking swaggon all day on the back of the wood stove.

Ingredients essential to tuna dish
Part of the fun of cooking up your own meals is the opportunity to experiment with ingredients you might otherwise never have imagined would go together.

Recipe: Chipotle Barbecue Porky Pappardelle
A look at what chipotle peppers in adobo sauce is and a recipe that uses it.

Putting on the pressure for bean recipes
A reader's request for a recipe to make beans in a pressure cooker elicits several responses from Tampa Bay area cooks. See more in the recipe exchange.

9 Healthy Super Bowl Snacks
The Super Bowl is one of the biggest calorie fests of the year for many Americans. The average football fan eats about a day’s worth of calories during the game, and the U.S. Calorie Control Council estimates that Americans pack away 11 million pounds of chips on Super Bowl Sunday.

Spice up your January with chili
It seems that anything spicy and served with a spoon can be labeled chili these days.

Cook up a Super Bowl feast
This Super Bowl feast features a TV dinner of sticky ribs, creamy coleslaw, homemade pickles, cornbread and saucy beans.

Hummus is base for tasty, gluten-free dip
My gluten-free recipe for January is this wonderful multipurpose hummus. This tasty Middle Eastern mixture is an easy-to-make and always popular selection. Hummus can be used as a spread, a dip or a sauce. I like it best spread on gluten-free toast or crackers, as a dip for raw vegetables or as a sauce on roasted vegetables, fish, poultry or meat.

Wing and a Chair: Getting your food on for the big game
Wings and dip are the way to nosh this Super Bowl Sunday.

Burns Night supper: vegetarian haggis
With no mucking about with messy innards or arcane cooking methods, a meat-free haggis can be made in 30 minutes. What are you doing for Burns Night?