Food Friday: New Food Invention!

 Early this week I was hankering for a hot dog (or sausage!) in a big way.  I am trying so hard to avoid them because I believe they are detrimental to my health.  I was out and so close to the hot dog stand that I was sure my wheels would just turn in.

However!  Before I got to the turn I remembered we had some prepared refried beans (we had acquired the dried refried beans at the Home Storage Center ages ago) in the refrigerator.  The only good hot dog has sauerkraut, onions, and mustard on it.  It occurred to me that I could make a "Polish" burrito bowl. So I did!

A scoop of cooked refried beans, a big scoop of sauerkraut, a handful of chopped Vidalia onions, and a drizzle of honey mustard made up the bowl.  It was SO GOOD!  I have now had that same meal three times this week.

Go ahead!  You know you will love it!!!

At least I know that I love it! I would love another bowl right this minute....

Munchie Monday: A Favorite Meal

 A quick and easy meal, and one of my favorites, is bean burritos.  When we went to Costco recently we purchased a bag of flour tortillas.  We have plenty of dried refried beans that we obtained quite a while ago from the Church's Home Storage Center.  We store them in 5-gallon pails with Gamma Seal lids, which, by the way, I just found locally at the Tractor Supply Company!  They cost a little more there than they do online, but there is no added shipping fee.

This afternoon Dear One was reading on the back porch.  He asked me if I was serving supper today.  Good question.  I was not particularly hungry so I could have passed on it but I remembered those tortillas and the lightbulb went on.

The recipe is so simple.  To make enough for four burritos I put 1 cup boiling water in a saucepan and added 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic, 1/2 teaspoon granulated onion, and 1 1/2 cups of the dried refried bean flakes.  After stirring them all together well, and with the water still boiling, I then put the cover on the saucepan, shut off the heat, and removed the pan from the burner.

After ten minutes I removed the cover from the saucepan and stirred well.

Now comes the fun!  While the beans were rehydrating I finely diced half a sweet onion, sliced some iceberg lettuce, got out salsa and shredded cheese from the refrigerator.  After heating the tortillas in the microwave for 35 seconds, they were ready to turn into burritos.

For a change I decided to let each of us make our own.  Which we did. Then we sat down at the table, blessed the meal, and had a nice easy relatively healthy supper.  Dear One added cheese to his burrito.

This is my burrito: tortilla, beans, chopped onions, sliced lettuce.  After folding it up, deliciousness!