Remember when we told you about our top-secret project to bulk up our bulk bin recipes? You guys really stepped up and answered our call -- thank you! Below are the recipes we've chosen for Editors' Pick testing. You may now call dibs on the recipes you'd like to test -- we only need one person to test each recipe, but feel free to call as many as you want -- there are lots to go around!
Here's a refresher on our Editors' Pick community testing process:
Any food52 member is welcome to help us test our Editors' Pick candidates, so go call dibs on the recipe you'd like to test in the comments section below! We'd love to see some new testers in the mix. Don't forget to email us your notes (about 100 words) to editors@food52.com by next Tuesday at 5pm.
We'll collect your comments, decide the official list of Editors' Picks and publish your evaluation in the headnote if the recipe is selected as an Editors' Pick (with credit, of course!). And even if the recipe you test isn't chosen as an Editors' Pick, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!
- RICE
- Bhutanese Red Rice, Millet, and Oat Breakfast Pudding CLAIMED
- Shangri-La Rice Pudding CLAIMED
- Long Grain Brown Rice with Black Quinoa CLAIMED
- A Recipe for Long Grain Brown Rice Pilaf (Vegan, Gluten Free) CLAIMED
- Brown Rice and Banana Congee CLAIMED
- Roasted Cauliflower Brown Rice Risotto with Lemon, Walnut and Mascarpone CLAIMED
- Butternut Squash Risotto with Brown Rice CLAIMED
- Sephardic Megedarra with Garlicky Brown Rice Pilaf CLAIMED
- Sweet and Savory Whole Oats and Sweet Brown Rice Porridge
- Savory Cooked Rice Sandwich Bread CLAIMED
- Brown Rice Jambalaya-ish CLAIMED
- Kimchi Fried Brown Rice CLAIMED
- Sweet and Savory Porridge with Almonds and Cardamom CLAIMED
- Mung Bean and Mixed Rice Sweet Congee CLAIMED
- Purple Tai Rice Cooker Sticky Rice CLAIMED
- Volcano Rice Tabouli Salad CLAIMED
- OTHER GRAINS
- Stuffed Red Pepper Shells with Couscous, Forbidden Rice, Kamut or Quinoa CLAIMED
- Red Tabbouleh CLAIMED
- Warm Red Quinoa and Squash Salad CLAIMED
- Red Quinoa Peach Porridge CLAIMED
- Spicy Black Bean and Quinoa Salad CLAIMED
- Black Quinoa Salad with Grilled Vegetables, Basil, Feta and Pine Nuts CLAIMED
- Amaranth Tabouli CLAIMED
- Cherry and Amaranth Dessert Casserole CLAIMED
- Mushroom Ginger Soup with Hulled Barley CLAIMED
- Barley Bowl CLAIMED
- Gatherer's Pie CLAIMED
- Avena con Champiñones/Oats with Mushrooms CLAIMED
- Peas Porridge Hot (Oat Risotto with Peas) CLAIMED
- BEANS AND LENTILS
- Anasazi Beans with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds and Cotija Cheese CLAIMED
- Rio Zape Beans with Toasted Chili Sauce CLAIMED
- Slightly Smoky Mixed-Bean Chili CLAIMED
- Best Boston Baked Beans CLAIMED
- Simple Seasoned Adzuki Beans CLAIMED
- Perfumed Adzuki Beans and Rice with Bourbon and Bacon CLAIMED
- Red Bean Espresso Brownies CLAIMED
- Red Rice and Beans CLAIMED
- Spicy Stewed Black Eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas
- Black-eyed Pea Cassoulet CLAIMED
- Jalapeno and Black-eyed Pea Fondue CLAIMED
- Slow Cooker Hoppin’ John CLAIMED
- 4th of July Baby Limas, Barbeque Style CLAIMED
- Christmas Risotto CLAIMED
- Mung Bean and Shrimp Soup CLAIMED
- Mung Bean and Butternut Squash Stew CLAIMED
- Savory Mung Bean Crepes CLAIMED
- Yellow Split Pea Soup CLAIMED
- Chana Dal (Lentil Curry) Begnali Style CLAIMED
- Tri-Colored Lentil Soup CLAIMED
- Porky’s Peas CLAIMED
- Split Pea Soup for a Winter’s Day CLAIMED
- Bisi Bela CLAIMED
- 10-12-12-12 (Sprouted) Lentil Soup CLAIMED
- SEEDS
- Breakfast Chia Seed Pudding CLAIMED
- Sweet Rice with Mango, Chia and Black Sesame CLAIMED
- Meyer Lemon Chia Seed Pudding CLAIMED
- Chia-Mint-Yogurt Dip CLAIMED
- Seeded Skillet Cookie CLAIMED
- Steel Cut Oats Mash Up CLAIMED
- Granola for Fellow “Granolas” CLAIMED
- Schichimi Edamame CLAIMED
- Swiss Bircher Muesli CLAIMED
- Tres Leches Oatmeal CLAIMED
- Blueberry Smoothie CLAIMED
- Power Bread CLAIMED
- Flax Seed Potato Bread CLAIMED
90 Comments on Editor's Picks -- Beans and Grains:
Oh, me too! Lunches and dinners are taken care of for a few days.
Perhaps we could have a special "Editor's Pick Hero Award" for the cook who volunteered to take on the most dishes this round. I applaud those who had the time, energy and hungry households to make more than a dish or two! Some took on five or more! (AntoniaJames). I only did 2, but I'll have healthy whole grain lunch leftovers all week. Yum.
I think we did cover all the recipes, yay!
I'll take the sweet and savory whole oat and sweet brown rice porridge. Mm, breakfast!
I'll take on the Spicy Stewed Black-eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas.
Thanks for testing this! Feel free to add as much or little chipotle as you like. It's pretty spicy with the amount specified. Hope you enjoy it.
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added about 1 year agoThank you all for generously leaping to test this record number of Editors' Pick candidates -- yet another example of the power of the food52 community at work, making a rather confusing system work seamlessly. Just two recipes are left: Sweet and Savory Whole Oats and Sweet Brown Rice Porridge; Spicy Stewed Black-eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas
I can do Mung Bean and Mixed Rice Sweet Congee tonight, thanks to a friend who just gave me forbidden rice and mung beans.
Jalapeno and Black-Eyed Pea fondue is me, then, as I am on an island off the southwest coast of Florida and the ingredients seems readily available at the local Publix lol
Is there anything left to test (sorry, i was travelling all weekend and without a computer until this morning, which was very stressful. The being without the computer part, not the travelling part haha).
Sweet and Savory Whole Oats and Sweet Brown Rice Porridge, Mung Bean and Sweet Rice Congee, Spicy Stewed Black-eyed Peas and Baby Limas with Corn Quesadillas, and Jalepeno and Black-eyed Pea Fondue appear to be left.
Is there a prize for last man standing?
I would love to have claimed more recipes, but not having all the ingredients (red quinoa, not black, for instance) made me ineligible. No wallflowers here, but trying them with current inventory.
I will make the Meyer Lemon Chia Seed Pudding and the 10-12-12-12 sprouted lentil soup.
OK...I've got my ricotta EP candidate in the oven, the porky pea soup simmering on the stove, a new recipe ready to upload and a rainy Sunday afternoon...I'll tackle the short grain rice and black quinoa...
PS. I think the bisi bela was claimed by Jennifer Ann, so that's one more to scratch off the list.
oops, make that Long grain brown rice and black quinoa
I can also do the Cherry and amaranth dessert casserole.
I'll also try the Shangri-La Rice pudding...we're having friends over tonight and this looks perfect for dessert.
Thanks for taking pity on me! Hope you like it.
No pity at all! Looking forward to enjoying it.
boo hooo!! I'm officially in the pity picks!!! Ah well There's my Sephardic Mejjedara to try & Savor! & the Syrian Kanafe for dessert!
at least I'm in good company! mine's not been claimed either.
Oh, I can keep you company, too. This almost feels like high school dances when you don't get asked...or am I dating myself?
Panfusine, Jennifer Ann has chosen your recipe - it just hasn't gotten a claimed tag!
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
added about 1 year agoUpdated again! Just 9 recipes left to be claimed.
I am excited to see that my recipe, Volcano Rice Tabouli Salad, is up for testing. I see it has been claimed but I don't see the comment claiming it. Was it tagged by accident?
Thanks
Robin
Was claimed by goldenblind221
Oops, that's what I get for using the search function to see who claimed it. Hope they like it.
Yellow split pea soup! Thanks for the 'claimed' tags -- very helpful.
I'm in the mood for some chili. Count me in for Slightly Smoky Mixed-Bean Chili please.
i would love to do the red quinoa peach porridge. what an interesting use for red quinoa.
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
added about 1 year agoJust updated the claimed list. See above.
I'll take the Brown Rice and Banana Congee, if it hasnt been claimed yet.
I just located purple rice, so I can volunteer to do the Purple Tai Rice Cooker Sticky Rice. Thanks.
I can also do the Bhutanese Red Rice, Millet, and Oat Breakfast Pudding
I would also like to do tres leches oatmeal and the volvano rice tabouleh. Thanks!
I'll test the porky's peas.
Love the claimed tags! Love them!
I love the 'Claimed' tags! Please sign me up for Bisi Bela.
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added about 1 year agoHey everyone -- as you continue to call dibs, please check out the ones that have/have not been "CLAIMED". We'd love it if we were able to have them all tested! So, have at those that aren't yet taken, if you would (as of 9 am EST). Thanks!
This is a fabulous idea.. saves us the time of scrolling through the responses (which in the excitement of picking a recipe, very easy to miss the posts! Thank you
I will do Power bread & Sweet and Savory Porridge w/ Almonds and Cardamom.
Christmas Risotto, how is it you have not yet been snagged? I'd love to try this one out.
And the Long Grain Rice Pilaf. If anyone else really wants to try any of the 5 that I've claimed today, please let me know. ;o)
And I'll also do the Warm Red Quinoa Salad, and the Split Pea Soup for a Winter's Day, in addition to the others I signed up for this morning. Thanks! ;o)
I will also do the Slow Cooker Hoppin John.
Black Quinoa Salad with Grilled Vegetables, Basil, Feta and Pine Nuts please (if not taken)
Peas Porridge Hot (Oat Risotto with Peas) please.
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added about 1 year agoHey everyone -- we just tried to make it easier to call dibs by marking off the ones that have been claimed (as of 4pm EST Friday 3/25). We'll try to stay on top of updating the newly claimed ones later this evening and tomorrow morning.
I don't have time to look through the options, but will check back in after work and nab at least one recipe if they are not all taken!
I'll just try harder to find them.
Uh, how important is it to use the exact type of beans called for? I have anasazi beans on order, but haven't found them locally. Can Is substitute cranberry beans?
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added about 1 year agoWe'd really like to have them tested with the bean/grain called for if possible -- how long before the anasazis get to you?
I wanna try the anasazi beans with pumpkin seed and cotija. Wow, that sounds great. Also, best Boston baked beans.
Chia mint yogurt dip please!
OK I would also like to call dibs on the 4th of July Baby Limas, Barbeque Style
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I've been wanting to make red beans and rice. I'd love to test this recipe. Thanks!
I'll volunteer for the Sephardic Meggedara please
One last one I'd like to test is the Swiss Bircher Muesli
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added about 1 year agoSorry, sticksnscones, the Muesli has already been snagged!
I'd also like to try the Shicimi Edamame
I'll take Black Eyed Pea Cassoulet
Gatherer's Pie and Barley Bowl for me, please.
Chana Dal (Lentil Curry) Bengali Style, please.
I'd like to try Savory Mung Bean Crepes, please.
May I test the Butternut Squash Risotto with Brown Rice? It looks amazing!
I would like to try Kimchi Fried Brown Rice if that is still available.
Hope you like it!
Difficult choice, so many I like the sound of! Can I test the Spicy Black Bean and Quinoa Salad?
If it's OK, I'd also love betteirene's Mung bean and shrimp soup - sounds so different and delicious!
Love to test gingerroot's Perfumed Adzuki Beans and Rice with Bourbon and Bacon
I'll take the Cooked Rice Sandwich Bread and the Granola for Fellow Granolas!
I'll take the rio zape recipe
Okay, I can eat all the ingredients in Gingerroot's sweet rice with mango, chia and black sesame, so I'll test that. And since I'm picking up chia, I'll also test the seeded skillet cookie, please.
I'd love to try Breakfast Chia Seed Pudding, please. Thanks!
And the Red Bean Espresso Brownies, if that's okay.
I just noticed that we can sign up for as many as we like! I'll also try the Steel Cut Oats Mash Up, too, please. Seriously, I could try one from the list per day for three weeks and be very happy, indeed. Thanks! ;o)
I would like to try the Mung Bean and Butternut Squash Stew and Swiss Bircher Muesli please!
Blueberry smoothie, please! Sounds very energizing!
So fun--I'll take the Brown Rice Jambalaya-ish!
And the tri-colored Lentil Soup, if that's OK.
Hope you like it drbabs! I just made it again this past weekend for a gathering of a few families - friends of my son who was home from college. I used crayfish, shrimp and andouille this time.
I don't know if I'll be able to get andouille, but I have some good Gulf shrimp in my freezer--so excited!
I'll take the Oats and Mushrooms! Love the idea of having savory oatmeal!!! Can't wait to try it!
And also Mushroom Ginger Soup with Hulled Barley. Have I grabbed too many?
I'll glady take gingerroot's cauliflower risotto too. I've been eyeing that for a week now!
Oh me, oh my . . . so many choices! I've had my eye on WinnieAb's Simply Seasoned Adzuki Beans, so I'll gladly try that, please. Thank you! ;o) P.S. I'll be back to sign up for more, if there are any left at the end of the day. I am just thrilled to see this fabulous array of great recipes using so many of my favorite ingredients.
I'll take the Fresh Stuffed Red Peppers! I have to bring a salad to a dinner tonight. Just grilled steaks with the neighbors - but this will be great.
I would like to try the Amaranth Tabouli please! Have never tried amaranth before!
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Red quinoa tabbouleh, and Flax Seed Potato Bread, please.
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