I’ve got a wonderful word for you – péchita. That’s the purely regional name for mesquite beans, and it comes from the Opata language. In Texas or New Mexico they ...

These Smoked Loaded Baked Beans that I made in a Cast Iron Dutch Oven on my Pitboss smoker turned out AMAZING!! Now a fr ...

Barbara Rose, owner of Bean Tree Farm, harvests mesquite-bean pods as she prepares for a demonstration at the 15th annual Mesquite Milling and Fiesta. She’s been harvesting from the same velvet ...

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The base of the Rain Daisy is also a sweet nod to the community's roots. It's something you can even use to make pastries. Hoffman starts the recipe with 3/4 ounces of mesquite bean syrup.

For a 16-ounce can of beans, just ¼ of a tablespoon of liquid smoke is enough to give you a ton of depth. Remember, liquid smoke can be incredibly potent, and less is always more when using it!

The Mesquite tree is an invasive alien vegetation that has taken over 8 million hectares of farmland in the ... The mesquite coffee beans could be the next the Northern Cape’s next big diamond ...

Whenever I see a dried-up old mesquite bean hanging off a drooping tree during the withering August heat, I think of my old friend Sam Rice. Not because he resembled an old, dried-up bean — I ...