Pin It Lettuce wraps have been a popular menu item around here for awhile. And thankfully a few friends have made their own version that I’ve had the pleasure to test out. So when I started thinking of ways to cut back on calories, but not flavor, lettuce wraps were one of the first things that came to mind. Lettuce wraps are a good combination continue reading …
Welcome back for another installation of The Bodacious Bean. This week’s recipe is a flavorful Black Bean Hummus. Yeah, we eat hummus here in the south. It’s even one of my daughter’s favorite foods. She’s a rare and complicated child though. Making hummus is easy as, well… hummus. This recipe replaces the usual chickpea (or garbanzo bean) with yummy black beans. It’s tasty and spicy continue reading …
Beans, beans they’re good for your heart, the more you eat, the more… you’re smart! You thought I was gonna say that other word, didn’t you? The pooty word. The flatulence word. The gaseous escapeous word. Fart. There. I said it. It’s done with. Now we can all go on, as the mature adults that we all are, and talk about beans. Beans. They’re good for continue reading …
Since we can soon say goodbye to summer, and the need to don a bathing suit for a while, why not key lime cupcakes, with coconut buttercream frosting, topped with toasted coconut? I like to call them “Say Goodbye to Summer Cupcakes.” The baker, I’m not. When cooking, I usually don’t measure, unless trying something brand new and even then sometimes I wing it, unless it continue reading …
So I found these pluots the other day, you remember? They’re the fruit that’s a cross between a plum and an apricot. I can’t say that I’ve had many plums or apricots in my life and certainly haven’t cooked with them, and a pluot? Didn’t even know they existed up until yesterday. So what do you do with a fruit that you’ve never eaten or continue reading …
