For me, supper means a hot meal. What could be faster than a little chopping, grating, draining, stirring and then a quick flash in the proverbial pan? Quesadillias dish up just that sort of supper. Whether you’ve shovelled snow for hours after arriving home or it’s a humid, stifling late July evening this recipe for Black Bean and Smoked Cheese Quesadillas [Canadian Living Magazine, July 2011] provides a filling meal. Here’s my adaptation:
Black Bean and Smoked Cheese Quesadillas
A sweet potato is a nourishing gift from the ground. Baked until soft and steaming, they melt in your mouth like candy floss. Except they are far more nutritious than candy. Low on the glycemic index (17), it ranks as a healthy, high-fibre carbohydrate exceptionally high in Vitamin A and offer 65% of the daily requirement of Vitamin C.
Where a sweet potato can lead you astray is how you cook and dress it. Load up on butter or fry it in oil to make fries and you start to defile the tuber’s virtues.
Spicy Beans on Baked Sweet Potato
I found this recipe for Spicy Beans on Baked Sweet Potato in the Murdock Books Australia cookbook Homestyle: Low-Fat. It is essentially a vegetarian chilli dish served atop half a large baked sweet potato and garnished with a dollop of sour cream and a light grating of cheddar cheese. Continue reading
Savvy Single Suppers 