From http://therichmondavenue.com/, here comes lovely Jasmine with a Southwest Breakfast Bowl. I can’t figure out what it has to do with cats, ginger, and/or the charade, but it’s a fantastic recipe – enjoy! DECEMBER 2, 2016 This Thanksgiving I celebrated two holidays. That’s right, TWO. While the rest of America was enjoying their turkey and…
Tag: Black Beans
Five-Layer Healthy Dinner
What a silly statement! As if I would knowingly, deliberately feed you something unhealthy? No, Beautiful People, these statements are screaming at you from almost every packaged product nowadays. Before I get to my – hopefully! – healthy recipe, I’d like to introduce you to a great blogger. Please meet Anna and read her very…
Go Cuban – Rice with Black Beans
One of the world’s largest, unprecedented in history political exodus of unaccompanied minors happened barely fifty five years ago, right at our back door, from Cuba to South Florida. Called “Operation Pedro Pan” and kept in secrecy for many years, for fear of political retributions to those families who remained in Cuba, it brought over…
Sweet and Savory Black Bean Patties
In a Russian folk tale, a soldier was walking through a village. Tired and hungry, he knocked on the door of a big handsome house. An old woman answered. “Please! – begged the soldier, – I’ve traveled far and wide, I am tired and hungry, would you give me something to eat?” “This is a…
Quinoa Mushroom Pilaf with Black Beans
I wouldn’t dare call it plov, and not because the base is quinoa instead of rice. During WWII, when Odessa was occupied by the Nazi and all men were fighting in the army, the women on my mother’s side of the family were evacuated to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The three of them, my…