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Creole Black-Eyed Peas and Rice Recipe - An easy spicy dish made with rice and black-eyed peas. Adjust the spices to your needs - less Creole Seasoning if you like it mild, add chili powder or cayenne pepper for more kick!

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Creole Black-Eyed Peas and Rice

An easy spicy dish made with rice and black-eyed peas. Adjust the spices to your needs - less Creole Seasoning if you like it mild, add chili powder or cayenne pepper for more kick!

By Sola

Best Black Beans Recipe and Video - This simple black beans recipe works well with your favorite rice as a side dish for Mexican and Cuban meals.

Best Black Beans

This simple black beans recipe works well with your favorite rice as a side dish for Mexican and Cuban meals.

By Cameron

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Tuscan Bean 'Goppel' Recipe - This easy and earthy side dish is great on its own or served with some good crusty bread and a glass of wine. Add grilled vegetables to transform this into a hearty vegetarian entree.

Tuscan Bean 'Goppel'

This easy and earthy side dish is great on its own or served with some good crusty bread and a glass of wine. Add grilled vegetables to transform this into a hearty vegetarian entree.

By ScooterMom

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Frijoles a la Charra Recipe - This is a really tasty pinto beans recipe made in the slow cooker. This recipe is great to serve along with enchiladas or to take to a barbecue or potluck.

Frijoles a la Charra

This is a really tasty pinto beans recipe made in the slow cooker. This recipe is great to serve along with enchiladas or to take to a barbecue or potluck.

By KIM93306

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Chef John's Rocket Beans Recipe and Video - Tender butter beans, crisp bacon, and peppery arugula combine in an earthy, rustic side dish that's ready to go in just a few minutes.

Chef John's Rocket Beans

Tender butter beans, crisp bacon, and peppery arugula combine in an earthy, rustic side dish that's ready to go in just a few minutes.

By Chef John

Zesty Garbanzo Beans with Pistachio Nuts Recipe - A zesty and impressive garbanzo bean side dish baked with pistachios, cumin, and thyme. Goes great with just about any meat.

Zesty Garbanzo Beans with Pistachio Nuts

A zesty and impressive garbanzo bean side dish baked with pistachios, cumin, and thyme. Goes great with just about any meat.

By TENSMOM

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Chef John's Santa Maria-Style Beans Recipe and Video - Santa Maria-style beans are made with a variety of pink pinquito beans that are cooked in a spicy, smoky sauce spiked with two kinds of pork.

Chef John's Santa Maria-Style Beans

Santa Maria-style beans are made with a variety of pink pinquito beans that are cooked in a spicy, smoky sauce spiked with two kinds of pork.

By Chef John

Marinated Black-Eyed Pea Salad Recipe - Diced red and yellow bell peppers, jalapeno chiles, onion, garlic, and parsley are tossed with black-eyed peas and crumbled bacon in a colorful salad seasoned with a tangy balsamic and red wine vinegar, cumin, and olive oil dressing.

Marinated Black-Eyed Pea Salad

Diced red and yellow bell peppers, jalapeno chiles, onion, garlic, and parsley are tossed with black-eyed peas and crumbled bacon in a colorful salad seasoned with a tangy balsamic and red wine vinegar, cumin, and olive oil dressing.

By Julie Cleaves McLaughlin

Slow Cooker Baked Beans Recipe - These beans have that classic baked bean flavor and are cooked conveniently in a slow cooker. Yummy!

Slow Cooker Baked Beans

These beans have that classic baked bean flavor and are cooked conveniently in a slow cooker. Yummy!

By creamcheese5

Refried Beans Without the Refry Recipe and Video - Flavorful refried beans seasoned with garlic, jalapeno, and cumin are simple to make when cooked in a slow cooker.

Refried Beans Without the Refry

Flavorful refried beans seasoned with garlic, jalapeno, and cumin are simple to make when cooked in a slow cooker.

By CHEFCLAUDE

Garlic Green Beans Recipe - Caramelized garlic and cheese! Is there anything better with green beans? You'd better make plenty for everyone!

Garlic Green Beans

Caramelized garlic and cheese! Is there anything better with green beans? You'd better make plenty for everyone!

By Ericka Ettinger

Boston Baked Beans Recipe and Video - This recipe for Boston baked beans uses navy beans, molasses, brown sugar, and ketchup to create a wonderful old-fashioned baked bean flavor.

Boston Baked Beans

This recipe for Boston baked beans uses navy beans, molasses, brown sugar, and ketchup to create a wonderful old-fashioned baked bean flavor.

By AJRHODES3

Green Beans with Cherry Tomatoes Recipe - These beans are briefly boiled and tossed with cherry tomatoes in a buttery basil sauce to make the most yummy green beans ever!

Green Beans with Cherry Tomatoes

These beans are briefly boiled and tossed with cherry tomatoes in a buttery basil sauce to make the most yummy green beans ever!

By STARNETSA

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Pat's Baked Beans Recipe - Not your average baked beans! This recipe combines pinto, northern, baked, kidney and garbanzo beans with bacon and onion. Try this for a break from the ordinary.

Pat's Baked Beans

Not your average baked beans! This recipe combines pinto, northern, baked, kidney and garbanzo beans with bacon and onion. Try this for a break from the ordinary.

By Kelly

Sweet and Spicy Green Beans Recipe - Fresh green beans are coated with a soy sauce, honey, garlic mixture that is sure to wake up your taste buds!

Sweet and Spicy Green Beans

Fresh green beans are coated with a soy sauce, honey, garlic mixture that is sure to wake up your taste buds!

By COOKOFTHEHOUSE

Sesame Green Beans Recipe - Fresh green beans are sauteed with sesame seeds and olive oil, then gently simmered with chicken broth.

Sesame Green Beans

Fresh green beans are sauteed with sesame seeds and olive oil, then gently simmered with chicken broth.

By SPRUCETREE18

Green Bean and Mushroom Medley Recipe - Fresh green beans and carrots are sauteed with mushrooms and onions, in a host of savory spices.

Green Bean and Mushroom Medley

Fresh green beans and carrots are sauteed with mushrooms and onions, in a host of savory spices.

By THE MOM

Baked Beans II Recipe - What a great way to wake up pork and beans. Add a little sweet, a little spice, and a little onion, and then bake it with bacon over the top.

Baked Beans II

What a great way to wake up pork and beans. Add a little sweet, a little spice, and a little onion, and then bake it with bacon over the top.

By Jackie Smith

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Slow Cooker Spicy Black-Eyed Peas Recipe and Video - Black-eyed peas grab some heat and spice from jalapeno peppers and cumin in this flavorful slow cooker preparation that also includes diced ham, bacon, bell peppers, onion, and garlic.

Slow Cooker Spicy Black-Eyed Peas

Black-eyed peas grab some heat and spice from jalapeno peppers and cumin in this flavorful slow cooker preparation that also includes diced ham, bacon, bell peppers, onion, and garlic.

By MJ46NY

Smothered Green Beans Recipe - Fresh green beans with a robust bacon, onion, and garlicky flavor.

Smothered Green Beans

Fresh green beans with a robust bacon, onion, and garlicky flavor.

By Michele O'Sullivan

Green Beans with Bread Crumbs Recipe - Cooked green beans are tossed with garlic powder, bread crumbs, olive oil, oregano and basil, and given a fine sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.

Green Beans with Bread Crumbs

Cooked green beans are tossed with garlic powder, bread crumbs, olive oil, oregano and basil, and given a fine sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.

By MNKENNEY

Italian Peas Recipe - You'll never look at peas the same way again. Peas combine with sauteed garlic and onions, and then simmer with a bit of chicken stock until tender.

Italian Peas

You'll never look at peas the same way again. Peas combine with sauteed garlic and onions, and then simmer with a bit of chicken stock until tender.

By WORSHIPWARRIORMT

Sweet Green Bean Bundles Recipe - Green beans are wrapped in bacon and baked with butter, brown sugar and just a hint of garlic salt.

Sweet Green Bean Bundles

Green beans are wrapped in bacon and baked with butter, brown sugar and just a hint of garlic salt.

By TRIOS

Japanese-Style Sesame Green Beans Recipe - Fresh green beans are cooked whole in canola and sesame oils, then splashed with soy sauce and served with toasted sesame seeds.

Japanese-Style Sesame Green Beans

Fresh green beans are cooked whole in canola and sesame oils, then splashed with soy sauce and served with toasted sesame seeds.

By Cooking_Muse

Cream Peas Recipe - In my search for a good cream pea recipe, I found many, but none that quite matched what I wanted. So I took to my own creativity and came up with this absolutely fabulous recipe. We love it so much we have this on the side quite often.

Cream Peas

In my search for a good cream pea recipe, I found many, but none that quite matched what I wanted. So I took to my own creativity and came up with this absolutely fabulous recipe. We love it so much we have this on the side quite often.

By STEPHNDON

Terry's Texas Pinto Beans Recipe and Video - An old fashioned 'pot of beans' recipe. It starts with dry pinto beans, onion, and chicken broth. Add green chili salsa, jalapeno and cumin for the spicy kick.

Terry's Texas Pinto Beans

An old fashioned 'pot of beans' recipe. It starts with dry pinto beans, onion, and chicken broth. Add green chili salsa, jalapeno and cumin for the spicy kick.

By Fooddude

Dad's Pan-Fried Green Beans Recipe - Once upon a time, Dad received a similar recipe with a bundle of fresh green beans. He made the recipe once and then lost the card. After many attempts to recreate that flavor, he declares that this, his own recipe, is even better!

Dad's Pan-Fried Green Beans

Once upon a time, Dad received a similar recipe with a bundle of fresh green beans. He made the recipe once and then lost the card. After many attempts to recreate that flavor, he declares that this, his own recipe, is even better!

By Pam Buffel

Lemon Pepper Green Beans Recipe - Green beans are tossed with almonds which have been sauteed in butter with lemon pepper.

Lemon Pepper Green Beans

Green beans are tossed with almonds which have been sauteed in butter with lemon pepper.

By Annette