Recipe 1
This become my first and probably most favorite easy, cheap, healthy recipes.
1 cup dried black beans (sorted & soaked overnight)
1 cup brown rice
1 medium onion chopped
1 pepper - color of your choice
rice wine vinegar
garlic minced (4 or more cloves)
vegetable bouillon
cumin
cayenne
chili pepper
sea salt
ground black pepper
red chili pepper flakes
1 bay leaf
olive oil
Drain your black beans, then place into a pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce to low heat.
Add olive oil to a saute pan and add onion till lightly browned, then add minced garlic. Add in brown rice. Mix with oil till fully coated. Add the directed amount of water (tip heat water prior to adding). Cook for suggested amount, generally 45 min to an hour.
About 20 min before your rice is done add about a tablespoon of vinegar, and then spices to your beans. At around the same time, sautee your pepper in a separate pan, do not let it get too tender, then add to your rice.
Once your beans are done, drain, add them to your rice and turn off the stove. Let the flavors meld for a bit then serve.
You can change this in many ways to suit your own tastes. My sisters like to add Frank's Red Hot Sauce. If you aren't big on spice I would say keeping the cayenne, chili, and red pepper flakes to 1/4-1/2 of a teaspoon.
Friday, October 14, 2011
At the Beginning
I've never had a blog, so please excuse my learning curve. Essentially, I have decided to share the changes I have made in my eating habits over the last four years. But most importantly the changes that they have made for me overall.
I have four siblings and two parents, and an extended family who seems to have loved all foods since birth. I however was the child who wouldn't eat any vegetables or fruits of almost any kind. As a kid my parents partook in the classic "you will sit there until you finish everything on your plate." Which is why I began hiding my vegetables in the leaf tracks under the table. I have no idea why, but all things somewhat healthy, including seafood, were grotesque to my pallet.
By the time I was probably ten or so I already had bouts of constipation and diarrhea. But it didn't seem like a problem really. My grandmother would give me half of a laxative occasionally and it wasn't like bathrooms are all that hard to come by. By the time I was a teenager, stomach pain was just a daily constant. I thought of it as my proof that I had a large threshold for pain. Then college came and stress plus constantly eating fried, greesy, cheesey, saucey foods, it all did me in. I started having stomach issues to the point where I couldn't go to class, to the point that I was missing tests, midterms, etc.
This is where I started to actually think hmmm... maybe I should do something about this. So I went to the doctor. They prescribed me something that at best did nothing, at worst made me want to vomit. So then they sent me to a gastroenterologist. This is probably my favorite part of the adventure. There is nothing like meeting someone for the first time and having them stick their hand up your ass. The months that followed involved lots of tests. I got to swallow several disgusting fluids and then breathe into tubes at different intervals of time. Then there was the colonoscopy, the prep alone should be avoided at all costs.
After all of this and more medications nothing was better. Then I was watching BBC America (I'm a bit of an Anglophile) and tadah answers came. I fell in love with watching the show "You Are What You Eat." Sure at first it was just recreational. But then I realized wait a second while I'm not obese, I could be on this show. Crap.
So I took out red meat, dairy, and all of those oh so easy just shove in the microwave or oven for a second meals. And what happened... I started to poop everyday more than once a day. Supposedly you are supposed to have a bowel movement two to three times a day - Who Knew! But the best part, no more constant everyday stomach pain.
Oh and I learned to cook. Which brings me to why I decided to make a blog. For those of you out there who don't need a quicky diet, but just need to change your diet, aka the way you eat. I hope that you might like some of the things I have found or invented.
I have four siblings and two parents, and an extended family who seems to have loved all foods since birth. I however was the child who wouldn't eat any vegetables or fruits of almost any kind. As a kid my parents partook in the classic "you will sit there until you finish everything on your plate." Which is why I began hiding my vegetables in the leaf tracks under the table. I have no idea why, but all things somewhat healthy, including seafood, were grotesque to my pallet.
By the time I was probably ten or so I already had bouts of constipation and diarrhea. But it didn't seem like a problem really. My grandmother would give me half of a laxative occasionally and it wasn't like bathrooms are all that hard to come by. By the time I was a teenager, stomach pain was just a daily constant. I thought of it as my proof that I had a large threshold for pain. Then college came and stress plus constantly eating fried, greesy, cheesey, saucey foods, it all did me in. I started having stomach issues to the point where I couldn't go to class, to the point that I was missing tests, midterms, etc.
This is where I started to actually think hmmm... maybe I should do something about this. So I went to the doctor. They prescribed me something that at best did nothing, at worst made me want to vomit. So then they sent me to a gastroenterologist. This is probably my favorite part of the adventure. There is nothing like meeting someone for the first time and having them stick their hand up your ass. The months that followed involved lots of tests. I got to swallow several disgusting fluids and then breathe into tubes at different intervals of time. Then there was the colonoscopy, the prep alone should be avoided at all costs.
After all of this and more medications nothing was better. Then I was watching BBC America (I'm a bit of an Anglophile) and tadah answers came. I fell in love with watching the show "You Are What You Eat." Sure at first it was just recreational. But then I realized wait a second while I'm not obese, I could be on this show. Crap.
So I took out red meat, dairy, and all of those oh so easy just shove in the microwave or oven for a second meals. And what happened... I started to poop everyday more than once a day. Supposedly you are supposed to have a bowel movement two to three times a day - Who Knew! But the best part, no more constant everyday stomach pain.
Oh and I learned to cook. Which brings me to why I decided to make a blog. For those of you out there who don't need a quicky diet, but just need to change your diet, aka the way you eat. I hope that you might like some of the things I have found or invented.
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