My first Link- Up! Please participate and be sure to tell your other food blog friends!
Anyone out there want to commit to Meatless Mondays with me?
For those of you who don’t know, the Meatless Monday campaign was launched in
2003 in association with the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and
now there are 23 countries participating! Wow!
Paul McCartney introduced ‘Meat-Free Mondays’ to the United
Kingdom and there are tons of other famous people on board…. you know, Oprah
and so on. But we don’t have to worry about all the celebrities, let’s just
commit to getting at least a tiny bit of meat out of our diets. The health
benefits are indisputable and surprisingly, the effect on the environment is
pretty profound also. (For example, it takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce
a single pound of meat…. That’s CRAZY WASTEFUL!!!!)
Never eaten vegetarian meals before? Not sure where to
begin? Well, look through the vegetarian and vegan recipes right here on my
blog to start and then surf over to the Meatless Monday website which is
loaded with irresistible recipes.
The best way to start a meatless meal is by embracing – and I
mean EMBRACING -- the humble bean. :)
Here’s what
you need:
1 T vegetable
oil
1 large
onion, diced
1 C chopped
green pepper
1 C chopped
red pepper
3 large
cloves of garlic, minced
1 T ground
cumin
1 jalapeno
pepper, seed and veins removed, diced
1 t dried
oregano
2 x 15 ounce
cans of black beans, drained and rinsed
2 C cans
crushed tomatoes with added puree
¼ C orange
juice
1 ½ t hot
sauce (Tabasco)
1 1/3 C raw
rice, cooked
(My beans were frozen and it looks like one of my peppers was orange) |
Here’s what
you do:
Heat the oil
in a heavy bottom skillet. Add onion, green pepper, red pepper, garlic, cumin,
jalapeno and oregano. Sauté veggies until soft but not too brown. Mash about ½ cup
of the beans and add them to the veggies. Also add the remaining beans,
tomatoes, orange juice and hot sauce. Simmer for about 15 minutes or until the
consistency is to your liking. Serve over white rice with lime, cilantro, sour
cream, avocado, shredded cheddar, etc…..
(printable recipe)
(printable recipe)
What a great link up Tracy - good for you - hope mine came out ok. I'm such a fan of Paul MacCartney's and love his book Meat Free Mondays!
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Mary x
I don't really have much in the line of recipes on my blog, but I will definitely be trying your spicy black beans.
ReplyDeleteLove that you are working on going meatless!! I added one of my favorites to your link-up!
ReplyDeleteGood link up, Tracy! I'm glad you like the tomatoes too! I love beans so this recipe you posted is great!!!
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