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My Burrito Turned Inside-Out … and then it exploded! Ingredients 1 cup chopped onion (this was 1 medium onion and half a leftover onion for me) 4 oz can jalapenos, drained and quartered, de-seeded if you are a wimp 4 cloves garlic, minced Some olive oil - maybe a tablespoon? 2 tsp chili powder 1 tsp cumin 2 cups frozen corn 1/2 cup frozen green peppers 2 15-oz cans black beans, drained, rinsed if you can be arsed (I can’t) 2 15-oz cans fire-roasted tomatoes NOT drained or rinsed or anything beyond unlidded 2 cups vegetable broth (I use water + 2 tsp Better than Bouillon vegetable) 1 1/2 cups quinoa, well rinsed Cheese for topping At least one egg for topping (I am a greedy man, so I like two eggs) Instructions - Chop, quarter, and mince the onion, jalapenos, and garlic, respectively. - In a big ol’ soup-pot, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. - Add the onion, jalapenos, and garlic to the pan. Toss ‘em around some to coat them in oil. - PU...

If hugs were an edible thing, I'm pretty sure what they would taste like. Shamelessly ganked from this lovely website and edited up because that's kinda what I do to stuff. You HAVE to have a veggie spiralizer Also, I've doubled the recipe so that it now fits in a 13x9" pan, because when I make it in a 9x9" pan, we eat the whole thing in one sitting. With a 13x9", we get 8 servings. I think this probably means that we're little piggies. NO REGRETS. Zuccquinoac 'n Cheese Ingredients 1 cup uncooked quinoa 2 cups water 4 zucchini (or "courgettes," a word with which I am currently hysterically obsessed) 5 1/2 oz cheddar cheese 5 1/2 oz monterrey jack cheese 5 1/2 oz pepper jack cheese Butter for your pan 3/4 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs Instructions - In a small saucepan, heat water. You want it boiling, but it doesn't have to be at a boil when you put in the quinoa. - Rinse the quinoa, then put it into the wat...

I've declared May 2014 to be "no-meat May," which means that I will neither cook nor consume any meat or meat product. This means, in addition to no crab-cakes or chicken breast, no chicken or beef bouillon. Since it's just a month - 31 days - I'm pretty sure I can handle it. The best part of no-meat May is that David doesn't know about it. I'm not telling him; you'd better not tell him, either. I'm collecting bets on how long it'll take him to notice and either a) directly request meat, or b) ask if we're going vegetarian. My bet is that he'll make it at least to 24 May before he asks. My colleagues and direct reports are far less optimistic - I've had bets for 24 hours in, 8 days, 18 days, and two weeks. Thanks, guys. Anywhosit, this is the first new recipe I've made as part of no-meat May (the first was black-bean sweet potato chili, sooo good). It's ridiculously easy, stupidly delicious, and on top of that, g...

Vegans and gluten-free folk get a pretty bad reputation. I merrily contribute to that horrid reputation, only partially because I am, in fact, a horrid person. Mostly, though, it's because vegan food can be so, so bad. Low in good flavors, high in bad flavors, does weird things to your digestive system, doesn't make you feel full, etc. I'm struggling to believe that this recipe is both vegan and gluten-free (for all that I made it and KNOW it is both of these things) because it is so, so not what I normally associate with the word "vegan." It's flavorful, has great textures, it left me feeling full (even after a 23-mile bike-ride), and it wasn't overly expensive or a pain in the ass to make. Qualify that: I made this meal in under an hour while half asleep and not trying to rush. Didn't eat it fresh, packaged it up, microwaved it to heat it up after said bike-ride. AND IT'S STILL AMAZING AND DELICIOUS. That's some skill, there. Mad props. O...

I'd heard rumors that tofu was an actual edible thing, but I hadn't entirely believed them because, holy shit, it's apparently really  easy to cook bad tofu. I say this because I've eaten really bad tofu. Many times. Tonight was not one of those times. This meal takes some forethought and prep-work to make, but I 100% swear it is 105% worth it. That's +5% value, son. EDIT: Three meals is dumb. I've changed some things to make this recipe stretch to four meals. Will update if leftovers are disastrous, 'cause around my henhouse, four meals means two servings for dinner, two servings for the sequel. Tofu-ckin' Fabulous Meal for Three  Four Ingredients 1 lb (16 oz) extra firm tofu, which you are going to press like it's a heretic 1 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp rice vinegar 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tsp ginger 1 tsp chili/garlic sauce (I used Sriracha/Rooster Sauce) 2 3/4 cups water, boiling 1 1/4 cup quinoa, rinsed 1 small sweet potato, c...

Many thanks to the imgurian who posted  this recipe , which served as the inspiration for a lunch recipe  that my dear partner was heartbroken to learn was for his lunch, not his dinner (despite the fact that I was cooking it at dinner time). Curried Chicken and Broccoli with Quinoa Ingredients 3.5 cups water 1.5 cups quinoa, rinsed 1 medium onion, coarse-diced 1 medium sweet potato, chopped into pieces ~1"x1/2" in size 2 heads broccoli, cut into bite-size florets 1 heaping tsp minced ginger 2 tbsp minced garlic 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup water 2 tbsp curry powder 1 tbsp chili powder 1 tsp black pepper (I so eyeballed this it's not even funny) Instructions 1. Put your water on to boil in a medium saucepan. Rinse your quinoa and set it aside. 2. Cut up the onion, sweet potato, and broccoli. Put the onion with the garlic and ginger. 3. Cut up the chicken into little bite-size pieces. 4...

All right, let's be honest about quinoa: it's that weird, grainy thing that only weirdos who skulk around Whole Foods like to eat. It smells weird when you rinse it, like a pissed-off ladybug. It probably writes  emo poetry when you're not looking. I drop my voice on the T when I talk about cooking quinoa because I don't want strangers in Cambridge to think I'm that guy . That's right: quinoa is weird enough that I don't want citizens of the People's Republic of Cambridge to know I eat it sometimes . I'm therefore appropriately embarrassed to post my take on  this recipe , but damn everything to Dorchester it's tasty and needs to be shared. It needs to be shared . It can be made vegan  but that's another word I don't use except with great derision, so just swap the chicken broth for vegetable broth and, uh, probably don't serve it with a side of steak. Which is a thing. That we did. And it was delicious . EDIT: Top this with a...