Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Black bean Corn Salad

So here is another recipe I made.
It is disgustly easy. And really good.

Ingrediants
  • 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 2 ears of corn, blanched OR 1 can whole corn OR 1 bag frozen corn, defrosted
  • Several handfuls of cherry tomatoes, cut in half OR 1 medium tomato chopped
  • 1 red onion (or several salad onions) chopped
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1/4 lime juice
  • a few dashes of Mrs. Dash Lime spice mix (optional)
  1. Mix all ingrediants in up in a bowl
  2. Add the spice if desired
  3. Stir really well
  4. Stick in fridge for a while
  5. Eat!

I am having this with grilled pork chops, cooked with the Mrs. Dash Lime Spice thingy.

Pictures too come

Friday, September 17, 2010

Oven Smashed Potatoes

At the request of a friend, I decided to add a recipe. Along with pictures. The problem is I don't really use recipes.
First take some small potatoes. You want low starch (red, yukon gold, etc.) not high starch like russet. Below you will see some potatoes from our garden, which I used. I did not use all of them.




After you have your potatoes, wash and scrub them. You will want around 8-10. Enough to fill a baking sheet. THen boil them in water for about 10 minutes. You don't want them all the way cooked, just partially.
Here are the scrubbed, boiled potatoes.


Now comes the fun part. Take a potato masher thingy, or a small can of food, and smash each potato. You want them to still be together, not all mashed apart like some of them.
Now oil a baking sheet, with olive oil, although I used avocado oil. Then place the smashed potatoes on the baking sheet, drizzle with oil, sprinkle with salt and fresh herbs (if you have them). I used chives.

Then bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 20 minutes.

Official directions:
Ingrediants-
  • 8-10 small potatoes
  • oil (olive, avocado, etc.)
  • salt
  • fresh herbs
  • Pot of boiling water
  • Preheated oven at 350*
  1. Boil potatoes for 10 minutes
  2. Place potatoes on plate and smash gently
  3. Liberally oil a baking sheet with olive oil
  4. Transfer smashed potatoes to the baking sheet
  5. Sprinkle more oil over the top of the potatoes, and then sprinkle salt and herbs on each potato.
  6. Cook 20 Minutes.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

roll ups

Not fruit rolls up. Recently I took some lunch meat (turkey) and made a roll up.
Pretty easy too, I mixed up some dill (from a tube) with a bit of mayo and spread it on the turkey. Then I added some thin strips of carrot and cucumber and avocado. Then rolled it up. Very tasty!
I then tried it with roast beef, but didn't want to get out a spoon and bowl so I made the mayodill stuff and dipped it.
I like dipping my food.
Oh! http://www.contespasta.com/ I love their peirogi and gnocchi! It is gf and dairy free! So, so, so good! I have cooked the periogies in the morning, thrown them in a thermos and had them for lunch.
Yummy!
They have other gf stuff, but the rest contains dairy.
I think it is great that more companies are making gf stuff, but now that I can't have dairy (or crab, whihc my mom has started telling EVERYONE) I would love to see more gf dairy free stuff.