Spicy Black Bean Barbecue Chili

March 21, 2010 by Danielle · 1 Comment
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Admittedly not the most photogenic food.

Readers, I owe you an apology. In all my first-day-of-Spring excitement yesterday, I think I did something awful. It started as an innocent trip to K Mart, where I picked up potting soil, seed packets, and a few plants (more on that later). After working in my garden (or, the fifteen or so pots of dirt scattered around my front porch), I came inside and decided to finally use some of this wonderful floral jersey knit I got at Dirt Cheap.  I made a sweet, ridiculously comfortable above-the-knee Spring skirt (more on that later, too). How...

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Black Bean Burgers

October 8, 2009 by Danielle · 1 Comment
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pictured with its good friends ketchup, mustard, and American cheese.

This is one of my favorite meals, and, of the (several) vegetarian burgers I've attempted to make, it's definitely one of the easiest as well.  These burgers don't fall apart, either, and they also freeze incredibly (which is good, because the recipe makes 8).  I use a slight modification of this Black Bean Burger recipe from Vegweb.com.  The original recipe calls for three 16 oz cans of black beans, but I prefer dried beans because they are much cheaper and tend to taste better to me.  And, of course, the more traditional stovetop method of cooking the beans is...

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