components, refried beans from Yellow Rose Recipes
assembled
The boyfriend came home from his friend's house with two huge, extremely ripe avocados from their garden, so I decided the best way to use them was Mexican Bowls, featuring lots of guac!
For the guac, I mashed up the avocados with a fork, and then mixed in lemon juice (half a lemon's worth), salt, pepper, garlic powder, a little cayenne, green onion and cilantro. I actually prefer garlic powder over real garlic in gauc, I feel like it mixes in better. I bet that using a garlic press would work pretty well too, though. Anyway, this guac was incredibly delicious. We ate half of it on the bowls, then we went out to the bar with some friends and came back and ate the rest on chips afterwards. So good.
I made my super-simple-cheater Mexican rice, sauteing half an onion and a couple cloves garlic and then adding a couple tablespoons of Mexican seasoning, a cup of basmati rice, and a cup and half of vegetable broth. It was way tasty and flavorful.
I sauteed some chard and beet greens with braggs and garlic, which is maybe my favorite super-simple way to cook chard.
The refried beans I made from Yellow Rose Recipes, I think it's my favorite refried bean recipe ever. It always turns out delicious and super-flavorful. I like to mix some pinto beans in with the black beans for a little variety, I think it makes them creamier maybe. Plus the pinto beans turn this awesome purple color when you soak them together.
I served this with more green onions and garlic and some radish to sprinkle on top. (I just feel like there's radish hanging around on the plate a lot when you get Mexican food, and I had a bunch so I decided to throw some in.) All and all, it was a very tasty bowl of food. I totally mixed mine all together and had new awesome flavor combinations in every bite. It was basically a burrito without the tortilla, with a lot of awesome.
Local: Avocados, chard, radish, cilantro, onions