Potato, Pepper and Zucchini Skillet Hash with Pinto Beans

Hashes are a outstanding way to deplete veggies which might be about to expire for need of any other use, and they may be a marvelously simple method to breakfast, lunch or dinner in the absence of every other plans. Fried potatoes are a clean canvas upon which any quantity of various ingredients and flavors may be tossed with almost with out reserve ? Veggies, vegetables, beans, eggs, cheese, herbs, spices, and many others. Here neighborhood vegetables shine and you can want to include some sparkling corn.

This potato, pepper, zucchini and pinto bean hash was a great achievement, and elicited cries of envy from my husband's co-employees while he introduced the leftovers in for lunch. It's also a extremely good way to apply leftover cooked beans ? Simply replacement 1 cup of cooked beans for the dried beans inside the recipe under. Of route, any type of bean may be used in a hash, but preserving with the Mexican-fashion spicing in this model I suppose that pinto or red kidney beans might work quality.

Other skillet hashes from my kitchen:

Potato-tempeh hash browns with salsa

Black and inexperienced bean corn hash

Quinoa breakfast hash

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Blackberry Quinoa Muffins

I'm now not one to fuss over breakfast, unless I even have some time on the weekend when I am not domestic alone within the morning due to the fact it's far continually excellent to have someone special to proportion with. Still, breakfast is an critical meal, even supposing no longer loved till the "brunching" hour or even if a mild one. Savory grain-based muffins make for a quick morning or mid-day meal or snack whilst you just need to grab something on the go, or complement your take-to-paintings lunch. Heck, they may be accurate every time of day. Leftover grains never go to waste in my kitchen.

As is typical with me, I maintain sugar content material to a minimum in my baked goods maximum of the time, and you truely don't want a great deal sugar in these cakey and moist muffins ? Not anything like a burst of fresh fruit and berries to fulfill the ones taste buds craving natural sweetness. The addition of quinoa makes those a fair more extensive and nourishing muffin than most, and they live fresh in a properly-sealed container for multiple days.

Local blackberries are strutting their goodness proper now, however I can quite much buy them 12 months round in London, and I take advantage of this luxury from time to time because I love sparkling berries and simply can't pass them with the aid of and pine away until overdue summer.

More cakes from Lisa's Kitchen you are sure to revel in for breakfast or brunch:

Blueberry Goat Cheese Muffins

Cherry Blueberry Muffins

Cornmeal Honey Muffins

Rice Muffins

Roasted Fruit Salad with Creamy Goat Cheese Dressing

The loss of life days of summer time are bittersweet, however patio dining is not but completed and the culmination of the growing season are vying for interest. A past due summer season warmness wave got me in the mood for mild suppers and what better manner to rejoice neighborhood end result than with a colourful fruit and combined inexperienced salad dressed with a tangy goat cheese dressing, whole with a sprinkle of earthy crunchy nuts. The combination of textures and flavors here may not leave you wanting, in particular if served with a few rustic crusty bread. Salads by no means want to be humble and effortlessly take at the shining function.

I've come across a range of recipes for grilled or roasted overdue summer fruit salads dressed with goat cheese dressing currently. After a few attention, I went connoisseur with this dressing as I manifest to have a few high fine vinegars in my pantry, but feel free to alternative anything you have got accessible, which include rice vinegar, white vinegar, a bit splash of darkish balsamic vinegar in location of the white, or some apple cider vinegar in case you please. If you're sparing with the vinegars, this dressing may not fail to delight. If you have got a fish fry, do keep in mind grilling the fruit, although I become thrilled with the roasted peaches and plums.

I'm pretty positive I might be serving this creamy goat cheese dressing all 12 months round over a number of vegetables. As is needful for cooks of all styles and sizes and vocations, you should taste your food before serving and pretty absolutely, I tasted the dressing just as is and could effortlessly have eaten a few teaspoons proper then and there with none accompaniment. It's genuinely that top.

More fresh fruit salads to grace your desk:

Lazy Summer Cottage Cheese & Fruit Salad

Red Fruit Salad

Black Bean Mango Salad

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Spicy Urad Dal with Cauliflower and Peas

Split dals are a quick and simple manner to deliver nourishing and easily digestible proteins to vegetarians, and cut up skinned urad dal is among the fastest and handiest. These little white pearls ? Also called black gram for the dark pores and skin that is generally hulled ? Cook quickly, and their uniquely slight and floury taste is a super car for tangy flavors, fragrant seeds and warm spices. I usually have a huge bag handy for once I need to come up with a quick meal without a whole lot making plans. You can find urad dal at any Indian or Asian grocer.

This easy but very flavorful dal is cooked with tangy tomato and pro with warming seeds and spices, with cauliflower and peas introduced near the end to keep texture and nourishment. It's a whole and gratifying meal served with hot sparkling cooked rice, and it is vegan-friendly too if you use oil in preference to ghee.

More cut up dal curries you may experience from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Indian Style Spicy Mung Beans (Moong Dal)

Indian Style Yellow Split Pea Curry

Toor Dal Palak

Urad Dal with Fresh Fenugreek

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Southern-Style Pinto Beans with Rice and Fried Eggplant

Simmered in a wealthy, zesty and tangy spiced solar-dried tomato sauce seasoned with a bit liquid hickory smoke, these pinto beans are so hearty and filled with rich barbecue flavor that even your maximum fish fry-crazy carnivorous pals won't pass over the beef at the grill with this dish. They won't even pass over the grill in any respect, because it's all achieved at the range-top. They'll probable be surprised that it is no longer best vegetarian, however vegan too.

As if the beans are not scrumptious enough by means of themselves, they are additionally crowned with exquisite eggplant slices tossed with a dry-rub spice and herb seasoning and fried in hot oil. Complete the enjoy via serving the beans and eggplant on a mattress of warm freshly cooked brown rice for a thoroughly nourishing and attractive dinner with a view to have your circle of relatives and pals asking for seconds. I made up approximately 1 half of cups dried rice that yielded about four cups cooked rice for the amount of beans that this recipe gives.

This incredible beans and eggplant dish is adapted from a recipe in a book that I recently received called "The Southern Vegetarian " by Justin Fox Burks and Amy Lawrence. Not just a collection of meat-free adaptations of American Southern classics — a cuisine that most of us don't associate with vegetarian-friendly food — Burks and Lawrence use Southern ingredients and techniques to come up with dozens of truly unique and creative vegetarian recipes with a modern Southern flair. This is one of the most exciting cookbooks to cross my path for some time now, and I'm looking forward to trying ideas like strawberry-basil shortcake sliders, sweet potato pancakes with peaches and pecans, green pea hummus, vegetarian gumbo, curried cauliflower soup, peach and tarragon pesto pizza, and plenty more. I'm getting hungry just writing this!

(Note: I received a copy of The Southern Vegetarian for review, but the opinions expressed above are entirely my own.)

Now without further ado, let's get cooking.

More pinto beans recipes you're certain to experience from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Refried Beans with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Pinto Bean and Avocado Burritos

Corn and Pinto Bean Dip

Pinto Bean and Zucchini Hummus

I'm sharing this with Jac's Bookmarked Recipes and also Ricki's Wellness Weekend.

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Corn and Green Pea Tomato Curry

I've grown tomatoes in planters within the outdoor for the beyond several years, however this yr the plants are yielding the most ample crop but. This of path means that I currently have an excess of tomatoes, so I am seeking to consciousness on them while making meal plans. I may additionally simply must dry them or preserve them in jars for the winter if they preserve coming off the vine as speedy as they have been recently.

In the intervening time, my husband enjoys slicing the juicy end result into slices and consuming them sprinkled with sea salt and a bit freshly cracked black pepper. And I had been including tomatoes to salads, curries, salsas and dips and include them on every occasion in some thing I can where they might be suitable. The night that I made this simple vegetable curry became an oppressively warm and humid day while all I desired turned into a light refreshing meal ? Especially after having eaten a rather massive and heavy brunch. The occasion of having a few stunning nearby sparkling candy corn and garden peas become just the inspiration I needed to, for a light but zesty and tremendously flavorful dinner. The lovable contrasts in coloration are matched by using the layers of sweet, tangy and spicy flavors and the pop-in-your-mouth bites of clean corn and peas in a smooth and zesty tomato sauce.

I cooked up a few quinoa to go along with the curry and served it all up with a few poppadums for an excellent mild summer season meal that made appropriate use of nearby produce too. Feel free to blanketed something greens you could have handy, adjusting the liquid element and cooking time for that reason.

Other corn creations from Lisa's Kitchen you're certain to enjoy:

Tomato Corn Chowder

Roasted Corn and Jalape?O Cheese Soup

Corn and Roasted Red Pepper Soup

Quinoa Soup with Corn

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Cherry Pudding Cake

This heat, gentle pudding cake dessert has been an vintage and favorite stand-by means of in my circle of relatives for years. It's perfect for assembling while you want to make a treat on quick observe, without an excessive amount of idea or coaching ? If you have sparkling or frozen fruit on hand, all the other elements are almost without a doubt to be staples in your pantry, and it is so ridiculously easy to put together that even people who don't bake could make this one. Soft, spongy and with a sensitive golden-brown sugar crust, the pudding cake is surrounded through heat, effervescent fruit juices and scents just heavenly.

I hadn't made it myself for a good at the same time as, however surfing thru my vintage recipes and seeing a bag of fresh candy cherries just waiting to be used up had me craving this consolation food again. You can use cups of any mixture of berries in preference to cherries if you want ? Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries or strawberries ? Next time I think I'll use strawberries and some rhubarb. You can also prepare the pudding cake well beforehand of time and absolutely reheat it inside the oven for 20 mins to serve warm, even though it's scrumptious at room temperature or even proper out of the fridge.

More clean desserts you may experience:

Blueberry-Raspberry Pudding Cake

Cherry Clafouti

Rum Plum Clafouti

No-Bake Lemon Cherry Cheesecake