A few years ago during Lent I stayed on a Daniel Fast for 21 days. During that time I ate mainly fruits and vegetables and eggs (I needed the semi-meatness of them). The Daniel Fast prohibits, dairy, meat (usually red), sugar, caffeine, chemicals (artificial sugars) or alcohol and allows whole grains, fruits, veggies, oils, vinegars, spices, honey. I guess what most people would term "clean eating" or maybe even extreme Paleo.
My friend Shana gave me this recipe during that time period and it was like manna from Heaven! Simple but delicious flavors. I crave it every now and then. It is easy to amend to your flavor needs.
Ingredients:
frozen corn, thawed
canned black beans (and/or blackeyed peas or any variety of bean really) drained and rinsed
chopped fresh cilantro
chopped jalapeno
chopped onion
minced garlic
dash of vinegar
dash of extra virgin olive oil
salt to taste
Combine all ingredients using desired amounts (or omitting entirely).
Refrigerate in container; it tastes great fresh and after marinated several hours.
Serve with tortilla chips, pita chips, or if fasting... all on its own!
Check out the little guy we found hiding in our variegated pittosporum...
One of my most favorite treats you make!
ReplyDeleteThere is a tub of it in the fridge now. Always welcome to come and plunder our foody booty. I know how famished college makes ya.
DeleteI'm not a salsa person, and even the stuff my menfolk eat is just the usual red store bought sauce stuff, but I'm always fascinated by recipes and yummy looking foods.
ReplyDeleteAww! The baby . . . any idea what kind he is? Robins have a nest in our neglected greenhouse (there is no roof right now) and we've seen two babies. We also found a Killdeer nest with three eggs down by where our burn pile used to be, so we have to be careful when we're mowing, and generally give her a lot of space.
~Deb
I love recipes too. I always want to branch out but a break down usually occurs when the shopping happens and I forget the ingredients I need. It is a baby mockingbird. We get a nest in our bougainvillea tree every year but had two nests this year. I have only seen a robin once, in Savannah this year. It was a neat moment for me. I guess they don't fly this far south. Off to google killdeer :-)
DeleteOh! It looks a bit like our sandpipers. Cute!
DeleteHow crazy is it that I read it as 'mockingjay'?!?! LOL You have a mockingjay in your yard?!
DeleteRobin is the Wisconsin state bird, although the joke is that mosquitoes are the *real* state bird.
~Deb
The Hunger Games bookworm has a mockingjay in her yard :-) mockingbird is our state bird but we have the same mosquito saying too.... Stinkin' skeeters.
DeleteThank you for the recipe! I'm going to make this --it screams yummy.
ReplyDeleteLet me know what you think and if you tweak it :-)
DeleteMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that recipe sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing!!
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