Spicy Beans

I found a recipe for spicy bean dip but being hungry and not having enough patients with the blender I settled for spicy beans.

I will most definitely make this again, hopefully I'll have a potato masher and make actual bean dip. When I do make it again this is the recipe I'll follow:

1/2 pint cooked beans (preferably black beans) (or one can beans)
2 1/2 Tbsp curry paste (curry powder mixed with water)
1/2 small can tomato sauce (or I'll make my own)
4 cloves garlic
1 onion
juice from 1/2 lemon
pinch of salt
a few dashes of cinnamon
olive oil

Pre-heat pan with olive oil saute garlic and onions. Add curry paste and tomato sauce, stir. Add beans salt and cinnamon, mix well. Lastly add lemon juice.
You could also add hot sauce or hot peppers depending on how spicy you want it.
To make a dip mash or blend everything until you get the consistency you prefer.

I think if you don't make it into a dip it would be good over rice and/or with chicken.

Doesn't that look delicious?

I ate mine with carrots and celery. Yes, that's celery...it's very small. It's not meant to be eaten raw it's used as seasoning.

~Sara

Rice, Bean & Apple Concoction

Once upon time there was a conference that Peace Corps Volunteers had to attend. It was seven days long and there were so many new and interesting ideas presented. And there was scrumptious, well-cooked food and air conditioning in every room. However, before the conference there was a kitchen conundrum that needed to be cleared up: what to do with the perishables in the fridge? Here’s the solution.

Cooked Beans
Rice
¾ of an apple, diced
1½ onions, diced
4 cloves of garlic
1 sweet pepper (bell)
Basil
Oregano
Spike
Salt
Pepper

Sauté (with oil or butter) the prepped apples, onions, garlic, and sweet pepper in a Kaharee

Season with a little Spike (cheating, I know, but so good you should be able to get it at many supermarkets in the States)
Toss in some basil and oregano (maybe some broad leaf thyme if you had any)
Pinch in Salt and Black pepper.

Stir it all around, coating all the food with seasoning.

Stir in rice and beans coating the rice with the seasoning, spreading the peppers, apples, onions, and garlic throughout.

Taste. Is it good? You’re done. If not add more spices until it’s “how you like it.” (Didn’t Shakespeare write that one? “To eat or not to eat, never shalt one let food go to waste.”…)

IS that Apple and Onion...hmmm interesting...but soooo good.