If you want a good, basic chili recipe, this is it. No odd vegetables, or secret ingredients, just ground beef, tomatoes, red kidney beans, and the usual spices. Simple and delicious.
Salad greens, onions and tomatoes are topped with Mexican flavored black beans, corn, and grilled chicken breasts. This is an attractive and zesty all in one dish.
Prepared spaghetti sauce makes preparing this favorite Italian standby a breeze. Just add chicken, mushrooms, onion, and green pepper and you are on your way! Serve over angel hair pasta.
My husband requests these burgers weekly and loves every bite, notes Tina Green of Albany, Oregon. I usually make extra dressing and keep it in the refrigerator to use on beef sandwiches or wraps.
A great, fresh-tasting picnic salad, it combines avocados, cucumbers, garlic, and green onions with chopped cilantro and the bright flavors of lemon and lime juice.
The red and green make a great Christmas cookie. Have used other nuts instead of pistachios with success. If your pistachios are salted, omit the 1/4 teaspoon salt from the recipe.
Pureed black beans and tomatoes are combined with vegetable broth to make a nice thick base for this soup, which hosts celery, carrots, onion and corn.
Mexican seasonings and refried beans are added to this lasagna. You don't even have to pre-cook the noodles, so it is faster to prepare than traditional lasagna.
Beef meatballs in a pineapple and brown sugar sauce with pineapple chunks, carrot, and green pepper. It's great as a main dish, but can also be used as an appetizer.
