Enter our US giveaway below to win a copy of Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World's Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, with 125 Recipes by Joe Yonan with one grand prize winner receiving a Circulon Symmetry 5.5-Qt. Covered Straining Casserole in Merlot. Please note the author's cookbook events on our calendar.

Joe Yonan is the author of a number of cookbooks and holds the prestigious position of being the food and dining editor at the Washington Post. You can find a number of Joe's online recipes indexed for our members.

The author's latest book, Cool Beans, catapults the legume into the limelight. Answers to questions we didn't even ask are provided: to soak or not to soak, seasoning concerns, the best way to cook beans (stovetop or pressure cooker), the proper storage containers, and more. A bean glossary along with a breakdown of spices and herbs is shared. Worried you won't be able to find a variety of bean or ingredient? Fear not, the ingredients needed for most of the recipes can be located in any major grocery store and if they aren't available, a section on sources comes to the rescue.

Yonan pays proper homage to Rancho Gordo for being the best thing to happen to beans and we agree. Before Rancho Gordo, many of us were familiar with baked beans and chili beans and now we know there are a plethora of varieties out there to be enjoyed. Credit is also given to the magic of the Instant Pot in making long-cooking beans a more time-friendly method of preparation.

The recipes in this title use a colorful mosaic of beans from Lady cream peas to red lentils. International dishes such as Spicy Ethiopian red lentil dip, Georgian kidney bean stew (lobio) with corn flatbreads and pickled cabbage, and Chinese-style noodles with black beans and shiitakes will take us around the world of flavor.

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To celebrate the release of Cool Beans, our friends at Circulon are offering one lucky winner a Circulon Symmetry 5.5-Qt. Covered Straining Casserole in Merlot. This pot makes meal-prep easier by making hearty one-pot meals, as well as boiling pasta and beans without needing a colander. Even having a colander hanging from my pot rack, I find myself taking my boiling pot to drain without remembering to put the colander in the sink first. I have to put down the hot pot on a trivet and then bring the colander over. Many times, my kitchen sink is littered with dishes from meal prep causing me to have to juggle things around to get the colander in place. I confess to sometimes tipping the colander in at an angle and then cursing myself as I watch beans, pasta or potatoes sliding into the abyss. This straining casserole alleviates those steps.

Made of heavy-duty, hard-anodized aluminum that's twice as strong as stainless steel, this casserole has comfortable, rubberized stainless steel handles to easily lift and carry from the stove or oven, directly to the table. Plus, dishes can be easily monitored without lifting the shatter-resistant glass lid.

Special thanks to the publisher for providing the materials for our preview above and for offering three copies of this title in our giveaway below and to Circulon for making our cooking easier with their straining casserole.

Thanks to the publisher for providing three copies of the above-referenced title in our giveaway open to EYB Members in the US and to Circulon for providing one grand prize winner with a Circulon Symmetry 5.5-Qt. Covered Straining Casserole in Merlot. Two of the entry options are to answer the following question in the comments section of this blog post.

Which recipe in the index of Cool Beans would you try first?

Which product at Circulon would you like to have for your kitchen?

Please note that you must be logged into the Rafflecopter contest before posting or your entry won’t be counted. For more information on this process, please see our step-by-step help post and this forum post. Once you log in and enter your member name you will be directed to the next entry option – the blog comment. After that, there are additional options that you can complete for more entries. Be sure to check your spam filters to receive our email notifications. Prizes can take up to 6 weeks to arrive from the publishers. If you are not already a Member, you can join at no cost. The contest ends at midnight on August 14th, 2020.

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