Untaco Taco Salad or Black Beans Three Ways

Since I have changed my eating habits, I have not been as active on my blog. It's been a year of food writing and over 150 posts. I will keep it going, but without the variety of food, (I eat a lot of the same stuff) it's become harder to think of things. Previously, it was easy and things flowed effortlessly.

Yesterday, I cooked black beans and will have a few things I can make with them. Today, I think I'll get some large portobello mushrooms and fill them with the beans, add a little topping, then bake them. Or, maybe put them on the grill. Yesterday it was a salad. Hot beans with a little lettuce rim and veggies, a spoon of salsa and a spoon of sour cream. What's left of the beans will be turned in to black bean soup.

I don't know why yet, but preparing all fresh food, cutting back on lots of things I used to eat, grazing on fruits, veggies, seeds and nuts is not as easy to write about. I miss all the ingredients, the saucing and simmering, the toasty roasty goodness. Peeling a banana is not cooking. The most fun I have is using the microplane or flipping an omelet. I'm sure as I expand my ability to explore new ways to make food it will all fall in to place and I will have some new things to share.

Until then, if you see me putting a squeeze of mustard on a leftover, cold chop and eating it with my hands...well, you get the picture.