Hey guys! Happy Thursday! I have a great recipe to share today! It’s simple. It’s delicious. It’s healthy. Oh, and it has BLACK BEANS!!!!!!! (<– I was tempted to make two straight lines of exclamation points, but I restrained myself). The following recipe is not my own. In fact, I’m not sure who to give [...]

Now that my whine-fest is out of the way, I can truly honor the delicious foods I’ve been eating. Enter, the tofu-lentil mash-up tacos… Tofu is a relatively new product to me in terms of preparing it myself.  Each time I’ve made it, I’ve used this amazing recipe.  For the sake of novelty, I tried [...]

While I was supposed to be productive on my final research paper on Pride and Prejudice yesterday, I was much more productive in the kitchen!  Good for the belly, bad for the paper. But I had to put some of my Whole Foods buys to good use! Let me begin with a spontaneous couplet to [...]

Black beans singing in the dead of night… I’ve said before here that while I loved beans to pieces I would not be their spokesgal until they changed their song involving the word “toot.”  I lied.  I cave. When it comes to black beans I’m all about tootin’…tootin’ their horn that is.  Thanks to a [...]

Dear Beans: I love you for three very specific reasons — you’re cheap, you’re healthy and you’re delicious!  You’re so near and dear to my heart and I love parading you around in pictures so much so that I’d actually like to name you like a pet (is that weird? How about “Ben the Bean”?). [...]

For all you Americanos out there, that means “more beans, please” said in kids’ voices just like the “more Ovaltine, please!” commercial.  I’m hoping my future (FUTURE, as in waaaaaaaaaay future!) kids will shout that with glee as I give them scoops and scoops of the nutritious stuff. Which brings me to my dinner tonight: [...]

I love black beans.  It’s a total Costa Rican thing. From gallo pinto – the quintessential dish of the Country — to black bean sandwiches as a beach outing snack, Costa Rica is all about these delectable morsels.  And here’s the plus – black beans are super nutritious! If you have the time and desire [...]