This brilliant recipe, using two of Hodmedod's most loved ingredients carlin peas and quinoa, comes from Eleanor Maidment's cookbook Pulse. This simple, but flavourful salad is perfect as a side dish or as a vegetarian main packed with plant-based protein.

This recipe from Eleanor Maidment's cookbook Pulse is her take on black bean sauce, instead of using fermented black beans, she has used simple dried black beans. We love this recipe as it's a quick and simple crowd pleaser.

This simple yet impressive dish is full of bold flavours and satisfying textures. Juicy tomatoes are filled with a hearty mixture of creamy white coco beans, savoury mushrooms, and fragrant spices, then roasted until meltingly tender. Finished with a drizzle of spiced curry leaf butter, it brings together earthy, citrusy, and warming notes in a dish that works beautifully as a starter, a light lunch, or a vibrant side

A take on ash reshteh with marrowfat and split yellow peas, this noodle soup that is entirely comforting and takes full advantage of the creamy sweetness of our UK grown marrowfat peas. Bowls are topped with tangy dairy, fresh herbs, and crispy onions (Isabella likes the convenience of the kind bought in large packets in supermarkets). Classically, ash reshteh also has some dairy stirred through before serving, but Isabella prefers leaving it as a topping.

In a world increasingly aware of energy use and environmental impact, the Wonderbag offers a refreshingly simple solution: slow cooking without electricity. Invented by South African entrepreneur Sarah Collins, the Wonderbag was born out of a need for safe, accessible, and energy-efficient cooking methods in areas with limited fuel or power. Today, it’s used across the world, from off-grid kitchens to eco-conscious households, to cook food gently, slowly, and efficiently.

Have you driven or cycled past our front door and wondered what goes on behind it? On Saturday 21st June we opened our big Bean Store doors for a chance to shop with us in person and have a look behind the scenes. We'll be doing it again.

We mill British-grown wholemeal red millet flour through our stone mill in Suffolk. The crop was grown by Andrew Lingham at Court Farm in Kent and is a species called Panicum miliaceum, a proso millet probably domesticated in what is now northern China 10,000 years ago. But what is millet - or rather, what are millets?

Zofia Page imagines a scenario so absurd it reads like satire – yet, in the current climate, disturbingly plausible, and all too close to the reality of rainforest destruction.