Simple and delicious beans and rice also only requires that you boil a pot of water and add rice. Warm your beans in their broth until they’re very hot, make rice, and ladle the beans on top. Or, if it’s spring, cook halved little white turnips with their long greens still attached, or English or snap peas in butter and bean broth or water, and cut little wedges of artichokes and cook them in olive oil and butter. When everything is tender, combine it in one big pan, add beans, a lot of broth, and a big handful of whatever soft herbs you have—chervil, chives, mint, fennel fronds, celery
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