Cuban Black Beans and Brown Rice

This has been a crazy week of barbeques and potlucks so I haven't posted. For one of the barbeques I needed to take a salad. I used the leftover Pasta with Roasted Vegetables from a few days before, added romaine, feta cheese and italian dressing, making it a Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad. I got several compliments on it. Go figure. The original recipe had made so much that everyone was pretty much tired of it by that time. It was a nice little ressurection.

We remade the Sweet Potato Stew again yesterday, but I didn't take pictures since it was included in a dinner last week. We had the Cuban Black Beans and Brown Rice today with Summer's family. Everyone loved it (except Joe who hates tomatoes and Josh who informed us he doesn't like rice). I thought it was very good.

We also made the banana ice cream from Eat for Health. In the jana/drjoel blog, she added strawberries and dates. I thought that sounded nummy so I tried it that way. About half way through blending my VitaMix motor stopped. It was totally dead. Matt drove over to their house and brought back their BlendTec. Before the ice cream was done his blender was smoking and giving him messages that the motor was overheating! We went ahead and ate the ice cream at that point. It had small little pieces of dates in it, but was still wonderful. Unfortunately, it was all so stressful that I didn't even think of pictures. We'll have to try the recipe exactly as it's written next time and hopefully get some pictures. (btw, I read my VitaMix owner's manual and after 45 minutes the machine reset itself and everything was good)