i’m going to let you in on a little secret. although mike and i love making new recipes and fancy meals, life gets really busy. and when this happens, we have a taco night.
as i was beginning to come out of my post-holiday cooking hiatus, i read a blog post over at smitten kitchen (have you checked out her website? it’s fabulous!) about a barley risotto with beans and leafy greens. i had never tried to cook anything with barley, and the pictures left me absolutely drooling, so i starred the post (my version of clipping a recipe out of a newspaper), and vowed to come back to it.
hi everyone! i’m back from a trip to lovely oahu with mike’s family and ready to share more recipes with you!
full disclosure to you, internet: mike and i weren’t looking for a black bean soup recipe when we found this one, nor have we ever made black bean soup before. we just wanted to make some cornbread, and figured we had to eat something else alongside the cornbread to make it a complete meal.
i’m not quite sure why some recipes that i make get posted asap to this website, while others take longer…much longer. it’s not that the longer to get onto the site recipes are any less delish, but the carrot oat coconut cookies post just jumped right onto the page. as well as the coconut lime cinnamon rice post. wait, maybe there’s a coconut connection – perhaps my subconscious must immediately share any and all recipes immediately with you!