Herself's Recipes

This soup is full of good things for you and easy to make, although there are lots of pans involved. This soup is worth the effort.

2 cups dry black beans
2 cans diced, flavored tomatoes (I use Fresh Cut)
4 medium potatoes, diced small
1/2 large onion diced
2 Tablespoons of cooking oil
2 Tablespoons of basil (fresh if you can)
1 clove garlic minced
6 cubes of chicken bullion and 6 cups of water

Put black beans in a pan with water and boil until the beans are soft enough to chew.

In a skillet put oil, onion, garlic, basil, and potatoes and cook until potatoes are tender and onions are clear.

In a crock pot or in a large pot over a very low heat add the tomatoes with the juice, the chicken bullion, the cooked, drained and rinsed beans and the cooked potatoes and onions .

Cook over a very low heat or in crock pot 4 to 6 hours.

This is totally easy to make and presents quite elegantly. You can use more mushrooms than the one pound this recipe requires. After all you can’t have too many mushrooms. We ate this dish in a Providence area Italian restaurant we stumbled upon one week.

1 pound of pasta, cooked and drained.
1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes packed in oil
1 cup oil ( I used 1/2 cup oil from the sun dried tomatoes and 1/2 cup olive )
1 pound mushrooms sliced, ( use various mushrooms make sure to have at least half wild mushrooms )
1/2 cup pine nuts
basil, fresh or dried and grated
grated Parmesan or Romano cheese

To make sauce:

Dice sun dried tomatoes small in a food processor
Put tomatoes, pine nuts, mushrooms and oil in large skillet and cook until mushrooms are cooked through

Put it all together:
Put some pasta on each plate
Spoon topping over pasta
Sprinkle basil over top
Sprinkle cheese over top