Serve up these easy black bean patties over rice or quinoa, or on a whole wheat bun for instant vegetarian sliders! Black Bean Patties with Avocado & Tomato Salsa Recipe When we find something that we like to eat, we tend to go a little overboard with it, particularly if it’s a healthy item. Black…
Spicy Black Bean Dip with Roasted Red & Chipotle Pepper Recipe
The countdown is on. With four sports lovers living in one house, it is hard to avoid the buzz. If you live in my home country of Canada, your attention is probably poised towards the second half of the hockey season. (My Vancouver Canucks keep jumping between first and second place in the league, which…
Red Quinoa, Black Bean & Bell Pepper Salad Recipe for Tasty Kitchen
If you have already made it through the list of New Year’s Recipe for Good Health and are looking for more low-fat entrees or side dishes for Meatless Monday or any other busy weeknight, this is the recipe for you. This dish can be made with either the regular (light tan-colored) or red quinoa. It…
Black Bean Soup with Bacon & Sherry Recipe
The road to my husband’s culinary heart is not a difficult one to follow. Contented sighs and groans of satisfaction are guaranteed with any meal that involves Mexican flavors, such as Rick Bayless’ Smoky Peanut Mole with Pork Tenderloin, or black beans. While living in New York City, we ate a couple of memorable meals…
Smoky Black Bean & Corn Vegetarian Chili Recipe
This hearty vegetarian recipe is packed with black beans and corn, and has a fantastic smoky flavor, courtesy of the chipotle peppers. There are not many naturally-occurring black food items that I am comfortable serving to my family. Typically, when a long-forgotten item at the back of the fridge turns black, I am ceremoniously dump…
Guest Post: Black Bean Burger Recipe with Lime-Cilantro Mayo
There are times in your life when you are touched so deeply by someone else’s story that it consumes your thoughts. Such is the case with Stephanie Nielson, author of the blogs NieNie Dialogues and Cuisine Nie. Almost two years ago, Stephanie and her husband, Christian, were critically injured in a plane crash. Christian suffered…
Quinoa with Black Beans, Corn & Chipotle Pepper, Lime & Honey Dressing Recipe
There are times when I ponder what it might be like to go vegetarian. I made an attempt the other night to walk on the light side by cooking up a veggie burger for myself. All was going along swimmingly – a whole wheat bun, a grain and bean-filled patty, and a dollop of yogurt-dill…
Crockpot Chicken, Black Bean & Chipotle Pepper Soup Recipe
As we begin to hunker down for the impending cold weather, we are craving dishes that will warm us all the way down to our toes. Apparently, my family aren’t the only ones with cold extremities. In the past week alone, I have received four requests for crockpot recipes. Still flexing its muscles from its…