With spring in the air, I am increasingly turning to salads for dinner. One of my absolute favourites is black bean and corn salad. I love how quickly this salad can be assembled. The sweet corn is a perfect complement to the wholesome beans, while the red pepper and onion add a flash of [...]
Archive for the ‘Beans’ Category
Black Bean and Corn Salad
Posted in Beans, Corn, Quick Dinner, Salad, tagged black bean, cilantro, corn, fast, flavourful, fresh, lime, Red Pepper, tomatoes on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Baked Beans
Posted in Beans, Comfort Food, tagged Baked beans, Chili, Comfort Food, Just Like Grandma, molasses on April 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sitelle and I have been negligent of Gourm(eh?) of love. Sitelle has a good excuse, being in the Gambia and all, while I have just been over-run with my thesis. But my thesis is now off with my external examiner(!), so I’ve had a little more time to breathe, sleep, and most importantly cook. When [...]
Patty pan and green bean-accompanied pan-seared chicken
Posted in Beans, Chicken, Onions, Quick Dinner, Recipe, Vegetables, Zucchini, tagged Beans, Chicken, easy, patty pan, quick dinner, Recipe on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Patty pans, also known as scallopini / button squash, are one of my favourite elusive treats of the early harvest season. This year I was seduced by a small box of them available at the market in Ste. Annes de Bellevue, although they were not even on my shopping list. They’re so delicate, and yet [...]
Vegetarian Black Bean Chili
Posted in Beans, Canadian Food, Comfort Food, Vegetarian, tagged Beans, chile, Shelley Adams, vegetarian, Whitewater cooks on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this summer, on a cool evening, my sister Ali treated our family to vegetarian black bean chili. She had previously taste-tested this recipe on her vegetarian roommate, who loved it. Our non-vegetarian family also loved it, and despite her suspicious for eating mainly beans for dinner, even my meat-and-potatoes-loving mother thought it was delicious. [...]
Lima Bean Succotash
Posted in Beans, Vegetables, tagged Crumb Topping, Father's Day, Lima Beans, Succotash on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For as long as I can remember, my grandmother would always cook my dad lima beans for his birthday as a special treat because he has an unnatural liking for them (rarely, however, would they appear throughout the rest of the year!). She dressed them up in a creamy sauce with meatballs, and while my [...]
