{"id":592,"date":"2012-07-26T19:59:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T02:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2012-07-26T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T02:59:39","slug":"bean-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/bean-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Bean Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you know me at all, you know that I travel via food. Vacations are designed for and around eating. Although, this means that now that we are back I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having to pay a little penance for my splurging. Meaning I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m eating pretty much only \u00e2\u20ac\u0153green smoothies”, salads, and veggies this week. Somehow, miraculously, I actually didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gain weight on our trip despite the wonderful food, so this is more a nutrition thing than a diet thing. I always like to say I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 85\/15. Healthy 85% of the time and indulging 15% of the time. This week is me just trying to even out the numbers. Or me trying to make myself feel better, one of the two.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Sunday afternoon was spent prepping meals for the week. I made 6 pints of smoothies for breakfasts and a bunch of salads for lunches. Knowing I would grow tired of leafy salad (I did not inherit my father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to eat the same thing every day) I threw together this bean salad on a whim. It turned out GREAT! And, AND, it got Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approval! I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect that.<\/p>\n

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Now here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the problem, when I cook, especially when I am throwing something together, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t measure. So these are my closest approximations:<\/p>\n

Bean Salad<\/p>\n

1 15oz can Garbanzo Beans<\/em><\/strong> (Always strain and rinse canned beans)<\/p>\n

3\/4 of a can each of black beans<\/em><\/strong> and kidney beans<\/em><\/strong> (I have no justification for this measurement other than I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like them as much as garbanzo beans so I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put in the whole can. And lest you think I wasted food, they went into the turkey chili for dinner)<\/p>\n

1-1\u00c2\u00a0 1\/2\u00c2\u00a0 cups green beans<\/em><\/strong> chopped into pieces (Now I guess you could use a can of green beans. I, personally, do not like canned green beans, they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really green and are mushy, so I use fresh. Trader Joe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sells them in a bag, you throw it in the microwave for 4 minutes and voila!)<\/p>\n

1 red bell pepper<\/em><\/strong>, diced<\/p>\n

1\/2 of a red onion<\/em><\/strong>, diced<\/p>\n

1 1\/2 cups of cooked macaroni<\/em><\/strong> or other small pasta noodle (I used a whole grain, high protein version)<\/p>\n

Fresh parsley<\/em><\/strong>, chopped<\/p>\n

Fresh cilantro<\/em><\/strong>, chopped<\/p>\n

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Dressing: (Again I am approximating the measurements, so feel free to play with it! )<\/p>\n

1\/3 cup olive oil<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1\/3 cup\u00c2\u00a0white vinegar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Juice of one lemon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 tsp sugar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1\/4 – 1\/3 cup deli-style mustard<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Salt<\/em><\/strong> and Pepper<\/em><\/strong> to taste<\/p>\n

Put the salad ingredients together in a large bowl, mix it up a bit so everything is distributed. Make the dressing separately in a smaller bowl, and whisk everything together (or throw it all in a mason jar and shake it up!). Pour the dressing onto the salad and mix until the dressing covers everything.<\/p>\n

I stored mine in a large mason jar and it lasted us all week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you know me at all, you know that I travel via food. Vacations are designed for and around eating. Although, this means that now that we are back I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having to pay a little penance for my splurging. Meaning I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m eating pretty much only \u00e2\u20ac\u0153green smoothies”, salads, and veggies this week. Somehow, miraculously, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[287,293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}