My friend and her two children came round for tea tonight; I had a total timing failure and instead of getting home in good time to make the tea before I had to pick up my older daughter - I got home with 10 minutes to make dinner! Poor poor planning.
Luckily I pulled a dinner out of the bag; that has been a favourite for longer than I have been a vegetarian. My first job after graduating was in York; my now husband (then boyfriend) was vegetarian when we first moved in together and one of our first joint purchases was a vegetarian recipe book from Sainsbury's. Still probably one of our most used and well loved books.
In the book was a recipe called Mexican Tostadas - which is essentially a refried bean and salsa recipe. It introduced me to borlotti beans - A king amongst beans - more tasty than the kidney bean and very good to mash.
The recipe is very easy; you fry onions and garlic until soft; add a teaspoon of cumin. coriander, and chilli, and fry for a few minutes. Add drained and rinsed tinned beans and some vegetarian stock to cover. Simmer for a few minutes (or no minutes if you have none!) turn off the heat and mash the beans! Perfect re-fried beans. I think the original recipe suggests mashing half the beans and leaving the rest whole -but I find a consistent texture goes down much better with children.
You make the simplest tomato sauce (fry garlic and add a tin of tomatoes and seasoning and boil)
Then pile the mixture in big taco shells with tons of cheese, and any other Mexican accoutrements you happen to have in your fridge - (Guacamole, sour cream, jalapenos etc)
I found out tonight that you can prepare this in about 15 minutes! Great for those people like myself who are disorganised and trying to cram too many things into a day.
Good to have a Mexican Meal - to show support for my team drawn in the World Cup Sweepstake!
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