Summer's Coming!!!

Spring has arrived and where have I been??? Well, long story short, we are moving (this is really an understatement, we are redoing the house I grew up in that needs TONS of help), Weston needs heart surgery soon and very far away (Boston or Denver), and we are expecting a new baby in early October. That about sums up the last couple of months.

While I was moving, I came across a vegetarian cookbook that my friend Jamie gave me. I think vegetarians would use those recipes as meals, but to Adam, a meal is not a meal unless it includes meat. I came across one of my favorite recipes that I changed a little. I think in the book it was called Black Bean Side or something similar. It was meant to be served hot over rice-which we have eaten it but we like it better cold. Like I have told you before, I don't like to measure. It's not that I can't measure-it is just that by the time I find all of the little measuring cups and spoons, someone or SOMEONES have gotten into what I am trying to make and either eaten it, dumped it in the floor, or dumped something into it (how the playdough got into the muffins).

2 cans of black beans rinsed and drained
a few tomatoes chopped up
some garlic-depending on your taste
Some chopped red onion
cilantro (omit it if you hate it-we love it)
a couple of limes worth of juice (or a squirt of the stuff from the bottle)
a little salt
a diced jalepeno or habenero if you like spicy

I make it and put it in a tupperware and let it sit overnight in the fridge. It is yummy on top of tacos-fish tacos being our favorite, on salads, or as a dip for tortilla chips. Our good friends gave us tuna steaks and I grilled them with salt and pepper and we served the cold black bean salad on the side. It was yummy together!