Tag: beans

WIAW 77 – the All Tomato Edition

WIAW 77 – the All Tomato Edition

Yes, I eat tomatoes three meals a day  in August… Doesn’t everyone? All right, I admit, when I have cereal for breakfast I don’t add tomatoes to that. But a ripe red tomato is wonderful with my breakfast beans and eggs! I was reminded recently 

Breakfast Beans and Eggs

Breakfast Beans and Eggs

I realized that, in my What I Ate Wednesday posts, I keep showing you a messy pile of cooked beans and eggs over corn tortillas – a common breakfast for me – but I’ve never really discussed cooking them.

Super Simple Spinach Hummus

Super Simple Spinach Hummus

Super Simple Spinach Hummus – a quick and easy spread made of spinach and chick peas, perfect with crackers, or a lovely lunch!

Cornbread Pot pie

Cornbread Pot pie

Cook extra meat, I blithely say. Brown ground meat, fill a slow cooker with chicken, cook a whole pork shoulder (with seasoning!) and then freeze the meat to use later. Fill your freezer with zip bags and little plastic containers of cooked meat, so you 

Pork and Pintos

Pork and Pintos

The Word of the Week seems to have been Meat. The local stores had excellent sales on large cuts of meat you might want for your holiday table – ham, of course, but also pork shoulder. (This has been a largely Puerto Rican neighborhood all