Yummy Recipes

Black Bean Brownies...sooo good!

I have added some great recipe links at the side that I love to browse and they inspire me to cook.
Black Bean Brownies comes from a great website called 101 Cookbooks. Heidi Swanson had this huge cookbook collection and decided one day to actually make some of the recipes and her website is a record of that journey.
So black bean brownies - not bad,  a lot of butter, and a lot of agave, I reduced it to a cup because it is so expensive and a can of black beans only adds up to 1 1/2cups but I wasn't about to open another can to top it off to 2 cups. Aside from having three mini appliances out because I don't have a food processor and you do need to make sure the beans are pureed they turned out great. I like flourless chocolate anything but I overheard one of the teenagers I served it to last night at the school say it was like mud...my kids loved it.
I also made carmelized tofu with brussel sprouts and pecans because the photo she had was so beautiful and everyone gobbled that up. I added carrots and basil which is weird because I always have cilantro. The meal was ready in 15 minutes, I had rice already cooked.
From the  mother of all healthy cooking websites, Rebecca Woods, I made poached curry salmon in coconut milk that was so delicious and ready in 15 minutes because you take the skin of the fillets and cut into small pieces- so very quick!
And my last dish was inspired by a conversation with a friend who caters and based on her description alone I was salivating and raced home to make it. I bought kamut and quinoa pasta and tossed it with sea salt, olive oil, lemon rind, feta, basil and I added, for Theo and myself, olives. Easy, easy and once again not a noodle was left on a plate.

From Susan Jane's website in the UK  I will be experimenting with the Buckwheat Avocado Burgers I love her detailed analysis of all the healthy benefits, it reminds me of someone I know (oh yeah my sister) and she is, after all, the President of Oxford University's Gastronomy Society.

Comments

[sue]

You have inspired me...maybe not the buttery but delicious brownies, but the tofu brussel sprouts certainly. I am always yearning for new ways to cook salmon. So I know what I am making next week. Yummy,
Sue

[Mo]

If you are feeding them Tofu, no wonder they liked muddy brownies.....I love veggies, but tofu leaves me cold.

Mo

[JenJen]

Imagine crispy, fried cubes of tofu marinated in ginger,garlic,soy sauce- it is soo good- they actually love it! Brainwashing is a wonderful parenting tool when they are young.