Challenge taken !!!

Okay, WW, that title is funny.



I'll be having this for lunch today:

Spicy Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/spicy-slow-cooker-black-bean-soup/detail.aspx



Topped with tomato, avocado, and a little cheese--it's yummy.


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That looks delicious! I'm going to have to try that recipe.

My homemade bean soup is thawing out as i write. Yummmmy

That black bean soup looks so good. something as simple as beans can be dressed up to divinehood....( yea I think that wasn't a word but it mouth watering lol)

My primary recommended substituting beans for meat every once in a while, so does my trainer (sometimes I think she recommends it because she knows I'll make a whole bunch of whatever it is I'm making and she knows I'll bring some to her because she likes my cooking and she's the only vegetarian friend I have-so I know I can give it to her so it won't go to waste.) Beans are high in fiber as well as protein, which helps keep you full. So I'll do that at least once a week (okay twice since the second time is when I go to Chipotle's for a veggie burrito bowl) or if I want a quick meal: black beans, yellow rice, and some salsa and I'm on my way!

Last year was the first time I saw Epazote grown. I was very surprised at how tall it was and that it didn't smell like something you would eat. Some of the better herbs are like that though - they smell more like medicine than something to season food with.

http://www.heirloom-organics.com/guide/va/guidetogrowingepazote.html

Growning up, I hated beans. Its a texture thing. I don't like fuzzy, mushy textures. I wouldn't eat beans and I swalled peas whole. I don't eat stewed vegetables (still) or traditional roasted veggies. Give me something raw, un-cooked and I will eat it if it's chewable. Beans aren't, in their ready to cook state, chewable. I did, eventually, learn to eat them as an adult and my favorite is black but my hispanic husband hates black beans. So, I don't cook beans for him and he doesn't cook beans for me. Funny how things work out.

For lunch I made a burrito with black beans, chicken, cheese and tomatoes. My next personal challenge is to stop buying them canned and just get the dry beans... I have no patience while they're soaking/cooking!

I am truly a bean lover (have yet to meet a bean I did not like. Soaking some chickies as we speak to make some mock chicken salad for this weekend....I'll be posting to my YT page.