I’m not much of a cook – I used to be – when I was growing up in a family of 7 siblings and my parents. I was the second oldest child, and at age 12 my job was to bake a batch of dinner rolls each Saturday – about 6 dozen at a time! I did other cooking as well but mostly experimental. Over the years I have not enjoyed cooking – there are more exciting things to do! But a couple of years ago I took some Healthy Cooking Classes at the Steinbach Arts Council. At the time, the instructor was Walter Zogar. Walter has written a book and has his own website and believes in and teaches healthy cooking. He opened my eyes to how fun it could be to cook! I came away with a lot of great recipes – but what I learned was how to recognize ingredients well enough to create your own dishes!
Today I was adventurous and didn’t want to heat up the house (it is now 31.8 degrees out there at 6 pm!!!), so I used my rice cooker to cook up some brown basmati rice. I didn’t have a lot of ingredients in the house – but I sliced up some garlic and heated that – added a tin of black beans (rinse well to get off the high amount of sodium content); several squeezes of Mixed Herbs; 1/2 can of whole canned tomatoes and – my secret ingredient – sliced ripe black olives!
Simmering on the stove….
And – ready to eat. Yes – it was just as yummy as it looks!
I have to say that I have learned a lot about cooking from two great friends, who are also great photographers! Inge Skliors and Patty Boge. And yes – I kind of got this idea from Patty’s Brazilian Black Beans (Feijoada).
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