Until I went off to college and became a vegetarian out of financial necessity, beans really weren't a part of my life. But once I found myself pinching pennies while sharing a house with three other ...

Making baked beans from scratch isn’t fast, but it is easy. Though the dry beans do need to be soaked overnight, then baked for a couple hours, actual hands-on cooking time is just about 15 minutes.

Cooking beans from scratch seems to be wreathed in controversy, although I’m not entirely sure why. First of all, while I know that canned beans are readily available, they really aren’t worth using, ...

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease a baking dish with oil.