Mix together:

- chopt papaya

- fresh or drie mint

- small vinegar

- choped green onion

- lemon juice

- minced ginger

This is awesome with fish!

Ingredients

- 1 c flour

- 1 egg

-  oil

- salt, garlic powder, coriander

- water

- green beans

Directions

1. Mix the flour, egg, oil/butter, salt and spices. Add water until you get a thickish pancake batter.

2. Wash green beans, cut off the ends and add to the batter.

3. Heat oil in a pan and add the batter covered green beans. If the batter is somewhat thin, just add some more on top of the greenbeans in the pan. It’s okay if it spreads out. Fry until one side is crispy and then flip.

4. Eat with ranch dressing!

Ingredients

- tuna

- pasta

- chopt onion

- chopt carrot

- chopt garlic

- chopt green beans

- chopt squash

- flour

- Ideal evaporated milk

- basil, garlic powder, onion powder, pepe, black pepper, salt.

Directions

1. Cook and drain pasta.

2. Saute onion and garlic, add the carrot, green bean and squash. Sprinkle on small flour, add the Ideal and spices. Stir!

3. Add the tuna (keeping or discarding the oil or water), stir and let thicken. Add more flour if necessary.

4. Add to pasta and enjoy!

Ingredients

- beans (lima, navy, garbanzo)

- sliced sausage (from kebab man)

- squash

- potato

- onion

- medium sized tinned tomato (tomato paste)

- pasta noodles (not spaghetti)

- all kinds of Italian seasonings (basil, oregano, rosemary, parsley, garlic powder)

Directions

1. Soak beans overnight.

2. Cook beans. The amount of water you use to cook the beans in will be about how much soup you’ll have.

2. When the beans are about done, stir in the tinned tomatoes and chopt squash, potato and onion.

3. Reheat the sausage slices in a pan to kill all possible bugs etc. Add them to the soup. Boil pasta separately, drain and add to soup.

4. Add all seasons and salt.

Ingredients

- dried giant lima beans

- dried lentils (any colour)

- chopt onion

- chopt tomato

- olive oil

-pilaf seasoning

- dried couscous or pilaf

- salt

Directions

1. About six hours before you want to start cooking, start soaking the lentils and limas. Be sure to put them in plenty of water.

2. Cook the limas and lentils, adding the lentils about 20 minutes before the limas will be done. Meanwhile, fry the chopt onion and chopt tomato in olive oil.

3. When the limalentils are done, drain them and add them to the frying pan. Mix in some pilaf seasoning and cook it down on low heat, allowing the lentils to mash up as you stir it.

4. Cook the couscous or pilaf (pilaf will take longer to cook). Add the contents of the frying pan to the couscous or pilaf, add salt and enjoy!

Ingredients

1/2 cup uncooked barley

1.5 cup broth

chopt onion

chopt tomato

leaves

cilantro (fresh is always best, dried is good too)

Parmesan cheese

s/p

Directions

1. Bring broth to a boil and add barley. When almost all the broth is absorbed, stir in the leaves, onion and tomato.

2. Stir in cilantro, parmesan cheese and s/p. Heat through to allow cheese to melt.

Done! Look how delicious and healthy you are!

1. I love breakfast.

2. I love cookies.

and 3. I love trying to be healthy (most of the time).

Healthy breakfast cookies jive all these loves together. They’re healthy enough and big enough to eat just one for breakfast with a piece of fruit and be satisfied. They are also good for making ahead, freezing or frigerating and then reheating. It makes six big cookies.

Ingredients

3 c oats

1.5 c flour

1.5 t salt

2 t baking powder

2 small mashed bananas (Ghana-sized. One American-sized banana would do)

2 eggs, beaten

5 T oil

1/2 cup brown sugar

3 t maple flavouring

2 t vanilla flavouring

raisins, groundnuts, ground flax, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg (not too much!)

Direction

1. Mix mashed banana, eggs, brown sugar, flavours and oil.

2. In another bowl, mix oats, flour, salt and baking powder.

3. Mix wet and dry bowls together and then add raisins, groundnuts, flax, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. If the mixture is too dry, add more oil. Batter should be cohesive enough to form into patties.

4. Form into six big patties and cook in a covered nonstick frying pan on very low heat. Flip.

This is just the recipe that I cooked up – it can be totally adapted to your liking. You can increase or decrease the sugar, add other kinds of mashed up fruit or dried fruit, other kinds of nuts, cocoa powder, different kinds of flavours and spices, whatever! Just keep the base of oats, flour, salt, baking powder, eggs and oil and then do what you want! You might also be able to bake them, I’ve just never tried. Enjoy breakfast!

- breakfast cookies

- lima lentil pilaf

- baba ganoush hummus delish

- soup di napoli

They also have several different varieties of fried doughballs, so I was never at a lack for bowfruit.  When I got back, the first thing I did was buy and eat a lot of fresh vegetables.  They don’t eat those much in our Northern neighbors either.  But then I came home to find a BUNCH of green beans waiting for me in my garden! And a good amount of lettuce too! So that was a pleasant surprise. I made a balsamic vinaigrette dressing for all the rabbit-food goodness, and also made a BLT on a smuggled baguette from Burkina, using the REAL bacon bits my dear Rounds relatives sent me. It was so good.