Beans, beans good for your heart...

Thought I would share a recipe which the whole family liked (there have been others, some good, some bad, but these are the ones the family eats). I've been getting my bean recipes from the book Full of Beans by Violet Currie, and Kay Spicer. The link will take you to Amazon.ca (.com might have it, its a Canadian publication). Great book tones of bean recipes, some deserts too, bean flour and all. They have all nutritional info for each recipe, and many are marked gluten-free.

Beans 'n' Rice

beans, main dish, Rice

1 tsp canola oil
1 onion; chopped
1 clove garlic; chopped
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp celery seed
114 tsp black pepper; freshly ground
1 can (19 oz) tomatoes
2 cups red kidney beans; cooked
1 cup brown rice; or white, cooked
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1 green sweet pepper; chopped
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup cheddar cheese; shredded
fresh cilantro; chopped or parsley

- In large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat; cook onion and garlic,
stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until onion is translucent. Stir in
chili powder, cumin, celery seed and pepper; cook for 1 minute.
- Add tomatoes, beans, rice and Worcestershire sauce; stir well. Bring to
boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 20 minutes or until most of the
liquid evaporates.
- Stir in green pepper. Cook for about 2 minutes or until heated through.
Season to taste with salt.
- Garnish each serving with cheese and cilantro.

VARIATION:
CUBAN BEANS & RICE
(sometimes called Moors & Christians)
- In place of kidney beans, use 2 cups (500 mL) cooked black beans.

Notes: Full of Beans, 95

Yield: 6 servings

One day its going to be warm

This winter is just giving more joy. Snow yesterday morning and COLD today. One of my riding buddies had a set of Aluminum milled rollers he does not use.... So next Saturday I'm going to tackle the Sufferfest 5 and I watched the whole thing last night... I was up a little later than I wanted, old school footage.

I have been enjoying the IN 5' series, as they can be pieced together and make a good 10' warm up and cool down. The Sufferfest does not teach you anything but pain... I know what I need in warm up and cool down. I then grabbed my foam roller afterward and worked out all the nasty bits.

There is HOPE of spring as I'm being asked by several of the gentry class who now have bought cross bikes and would like to race in the Paris to Ancaster Race this spring. This race has become HUGE, and it's a lot of fun. Here in Southern Ontario when you buy a cross bike you have to sign a waiver saying that once in the bikes life it will ride in the race... So when the trails melt, and turn to globs of mud, I'll take them on the 60km tour over a two week period. Most years it drys out by race day, but even up to the week before its a mess.

I need warm weather!

Well, I broke my 20 year old rollers today... so trainer only to the end of this cold weather... What a winter so far...

Some workouts are better than others

Well, I've been working in my office this week, and getting to watch the Tour of California. Boss does not mind ;)

I had planned to do Cyclo-SPIN 1 last night. I went down in the basement set up and had Cycling.tv open in one window and Graeme in the other, I had to turn down Manguns and Marty. So I did my workout and did my best to "watch" the race. Anyhow the point of this post is when the final "push" from Graeme came and I'm hammering away, the sprinters are getting their leadouts and when Graeme said "ok cool down" Cavendish just went accross the line... Needless to say if I was there, I would have beeten Cavendish, NOT that I'm competitive and even a Video sprint can get me going that much harder or anything like that. :P

Riding outdoors

Well, on Family Day (President's day in USA), I rode with my friend Greg. "Easy" in the cold weather. Road were clear, sun was shining, wind was blowing, and other than I had thin gloves on it was a beautiful day! Now as per last post I had pounded myself last week... and I think I was still in recovery. Greg just flew up the hills, and oh he looked good and smooth, he is going to be a force to recon with this season.

Then yesterday night I went down to the basement and did three (3) rounds of the ZEN 8' workout, followed up by SPEED Areo-Ab blaster. So now today is recovery and tomorrow will be an easier trainer workout.

Today is staying warm in my office quoting jobs, and staying out of the snow AGAIN.