Bean salad recipe. Because summer.

Okay, so it’s late June, the holiday weekend is approaching, and of course that has me thinking about food. (Everything makes me think about food, though.) That aside, I was tweeting the other day about my bean salad recipe, and someone asked for it. So I figured I will share it here on this page, where it can live in perpetuity.

I got this recipe from the Food section of my local paper,The News and Observer, many years ago. It quickly became my go-to recipe for cookouts, potlucks, family eve...