The Monthly Menu: The February That Was

There was an extra day in the extra-hectic month.

It’s become a hard rule for me in 2024: I don’t boil water unless I can use it at least twice. Water usage in cooking is something I think about a lot—what’s wasteful, what makes sense. I’ve recently bought 11 pounds of beans from Primary Beans upon finding out they will ship to Puerto Rico, and so I’ll be boiling those, but I have been concerned that i…