Black bean chili/2 recipes

This simple and tasty dip, you can serve with pita chips or any kind of fresh vegies.

Affectionately dubbed "Papa's Ground Beef Casserole." This ground beef casserole with pasta is super easy to make using your slow cooker or Crockpot. A staple in our home and didn't last very long.

One of the recipes we found to use up the homemade leftover chili, it came out amazingly good, nice and crispy on top, very cheesy; the chili and other several kinds of sauteed fresh vegetables were delicious mixture, which gave the lasagna huge amount of flavor.

Puree of Yellow Squash Soup recipe

The dip pairs nicely with the sweet potato fries. A snap to make so it's worth the trouble to go the extra mile.

Abilene Texas Chili recipe

A delicious meat pie is great at Christmas. Feel free to use ground beef, pork, lamb or a combination of different meats. Make a few of these meat pies a few weeks in advance, then freeze them in the freezer. Reheat it in the oven directly out of the freezer just before serving.

The other day while we were watching Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen, chefs were making flatbread, basically like pizza, just different shape, which really made my craving for pizza come back to life. Then start making this sun-dried tomato, olive and basil pesto flatbread, and it was so good...

Nearly any kind of dried beans works in this class sweet yet savory vegetarian two-day version of baked beans.

A healthy penne pasta recipe, low fat and loaded with tasty veggies.

A very light, refreshing yet tasty salad, it's also very easy to make. It can be served right away or let marinate in the frige for overnight, it tastes even better next day.

100 Percent Whole-Wheat Bread recipe

Elegant Pureed Roasted Eggplant w/ Tahini.

Next time when you need a dressing to toss a coleslaw or a fresh vegetable salad, give this quick, easy and tasty dressing a try, and you won't go back to any store-bought ones afterwards.