What to do with: February 2020 Essentials
Find out how to get the most from this month's Essentials Box, with new beans, grits, grains, and pastas to enjoy.
Ben to Table Updates
What to do with: January 2020 Essentials
Here are several ideas for each ingredient in the first Essentials Box of 2020: Wild rice, tepary beans, garginelli pasta, gnocchi, blue cornmeal, and some craft chocolate!
What to do with Ben to Table Box 1: Spain-ish delicacies + Essentials Box 1
This is a central post with links to all relevant blogs about our first month boxes, including Delicacies, Essentials, and Ben to Table Boxes.
What to do with: Your First Essentials Box
Here are several ideas for each ingredient in the first Essentials Box: Alubia Blanca and Scarlet Runner beans from Rancho Gordo, Jimmy Red Grits and Farro Piccolo from Geechie Boy Mill, torchiette pasta from Community Grains, and harissa paste from Entube.
How to cook: Grains
How should you cook farro? Rye berries? Basmati rice? Brown rice? Wild rice? Barley? What precise proportion of liquid:grain and time is needed? Here's a secret I learned from my chef sister-in-law: It really doesn't matter (?!)
Here's what you do...(read on for more!)
How to cook: Grits
Grits are a wonderful — and versatile — ingredient, but cooking with an heirloom ingredient like the stone-ground grits from Geechie Boy Mill can definitely be a bit intimidating. Find out how easy it can be to make some extraordinary with stone-ground grits.
How to cook: Beans
Read about Ben's general approach to cooking beans here, along with some secrets you may not have heard before. And then get experimenting!
