Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Here is another delicious and easy quinoa salad recipe. This one has black beans, mangos, green and red peppers, red onions and cilantro. It’s a great salad for summer. I have really fallen in love with quinoa. I have tried other grains, but quinoa is my favorite. The next new one I wanted to try [...]
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Here is a great way to enjoy the classic dish of rice and beans as a salad. This would be a perfect dish to take to a picnic, or just enjoy it as we did as a main dish. I created this dish as another one of my budget weeknight meals. I found some chipotle [...]
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
This quick and easy salad has corn, black beans, avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers and onions. It is seasoned with cumin and oregano. It makes a quick and easy summer supper. Since It has been so incredibly hot here in Florida, and I have been trying to make more salads that serve as main course dishes. This [...]
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Are you still on the fence about what to prepare for today’s big game? This taco pizza is an easy pizza that is perfect for game day. I first fell in love with taco pizza when I use to work at Pizza Hut. It was the only one of their pizzas I would eat when [...]
Monday, February 1st, 2010
This is simple crock pot recipe for black bean soup. I first had black bean soup while living here in central Florida. Florida has a large Cuban population, and their traditions have influenced many Floridian cooks. Growing up in the panhandle of Florida, I was never exposed to Cuban or any other Hispanic food. My [...]
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
This is a simple recipe for chicken tortilla soup that you can easily make on the stove top, or in the crock pot. To make in the crock pot, simply brown the chicken in a skillet before adding to the crock pot. Then add all other ingredients, and set on high for 2 hours, or [...]
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
This is an amazingly flavorful crock pot ancho chili with black beans and red beans. Ancho chilies are dried pablono chilies, and can be found whole in the Hispanic section of your grocery store. They have little heat, but are full of flavor. Ancho chilies are the sweetest of the dried chili peppers, and have [...]
Friday, September 18th, 2009
This is a wonderful salad topped with spicy chicken and spicy sour cream chipotle dressing. It also has black beans, silver queen corn, fresh tomatoes, red onions, and fresh cilantro. I was overjoyed when I found a large bag of frozen silver queen corn at my local Publix supermarket. The silver queen corn was a [...]
Monday, July 6th, 2009
This is my version of Arroz con Frijoles Negro, or Black Beans and Rice. I first had this dish at a local Cuban restaurant. I absolutely love black beans, and combining them in this classic rice dish brings out the flavors wonderfully. I came up with this recipe after surveying my cuban friends about how [...]
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