Mediteranian beans

This another easy bean dish. Its basically the same recipe as the other one but with a different flavor twist

Ingredients
2 cans of chick peas
2 tomatoes, skinned and diced
2 tblspns rosemary
1 large onion diced
6 cloves of garlic
1 red pepper diced.
Salt and pepper to taste

Saute onions in some oil (2-3 tblspns of olive oil) until tender, then add garlic and pepper. Cook until soft but still somewhat firm. Add beans, tomatoes, rosemary, salt, and pepper. Cook for about 15 minutes.

I eat in a bowl with some blue cheese on top but its ok in a tortilla. The wife likes this recipe better than I do.

Mile High Pancakes

I love pancakes and the cottage cheese makes them very fluffy! I totally stole the idea from a Lee Child novel, the omnipotent jack reacher makes them for some kids.

Ingredients
1 cup of oats
1 cup of white flour (this doesn't work with whole wheat)
2 tblspn sugar (or honey)
4 tsp baking powder
2 eggs, beaten
4 tblspn cooking oil
1 cup milk
1 cup cottage cheese
1 banana crushed up (optional)

Mix all ingredients together, put dry ones in first to make your life easier. Heat frying pan with 1 tblspn of cooking on medium for 3-4 minutes. Put mixture in 1/4 cup increments. Flipping when bubbly, cook until golden brown. Avoid over flipping as it makes it mushy.

Add ins
- blueberries, fresh or frozen
- chocolate chips
- Granola
---Just add in after your put the mixture in the frying pan, on top of the batter it will sink in.

easy chipolte black beans

This is a very easy dish, I often make it on a Sunday night and eat it for lunch during the week. Its quite filling and dirt cheap to boot.

Ingredients
2cans black beans
2 large tomatoes, skinned and diced (or if you are feeling lazy a 14 oz can of chopped stewed tomatoes)
1 tsp cumin
4 cloves of garlic
1 large onion, diced
1 pepper, diced (red or green)
1 tsp sea salt (skip if you get beans with salt in them)
Pepper to taste
1 3oz can of chipolte peppers in adobe sauce, diced

Saute onions in some oil (2-3 tblspns of olive oil) until tender, then add garlic and pepper. Cook until soft but still somewhat firm. Add beans, tomatoes, cumin, salt, pepper and 1/2 the can of the chipolte peppers. Make sure to put the adobe sauce in there. Watch out this gets very hot.

Cook for 10-15 mins. Then eat in a bowl, over rice or in a tortilla.

Green Curry Vegetables

This is a recipe I heavily modified but originally stole from linda mccartney. The portabellos really soak up the flavor.

Ingredients
Main Dish
3 Portabello Mushrooms
1 sliced Eggplant
1 diced Zucchini
1 Onion
1 Can Coconut Milk (In the asian food section, usually thai)
1 Batch of Green Curry Paste (see below)
3 Tblsp of olive oil
salt/pepper to taste
4 tblspn of cashews
25 raisins, soaked in water for 30 mins

1. Cook onion until soft in oil
2. add in half of the curry paste
3. Add portabellos, Zuchinni, and eggplant
4. Cook for about 5 minutes
5. Add coconut milk and rest of curry paste
6. Saute until tender [I like my veggies what most consider under done, so I am not listing a time, but cook it until its tender]
7. Add raisins and cashews, cook for another minute


Green Curry Paste
About 1 cup of diced mild peppers, such as poblanos or hatch chilis
2-3 medium size jalapenos (you can use any spicy pepper, haberno, serrano, etc), chopped
2 sq inch cube of Ginger, chopped
2 chopped short stalks of lemon grass, or 1 long one
6 cloves of garlic
2 tsps of corriander powder
1 lime (juice and peel grated, discard the inner peel and pulp)
1 tsp of sea salt
1 tsp of cumin
black pepper (you decide amount)
Sea salt (go light here, as you will put in the main dish)

Put all ingredients in food processor and chop until its close to paste and won't chop any finer.