Ratatouille

Recipe Types: Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Main Dish, Vegan, Vegetarian  Ingredients 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, thinly sliced 4 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced 1 small bay leaf 1 medium eggplant, cut into ½-inch pieces (about 3 cups) 1 small zucchini, halved lengthwise and cut into thin slices 2 sweet peppers, cut into slivers 3 tomatoes, coarsely chopped (about…

Tomatoes

Seasonal eaters and gardeners alike wait impatiently, for the first ripe tomato of the season–nothing tastes like a fresh garden tomato! Thousands of varieties of tomatoes are known, and hundreds actually cultivated. The commercial tomato industry tends to utilize newer hybrids genetically selected for traits like spherical shape, thick skin and slow ripening (for picking…

Black Bean Burgers

Recipe Types: Main Dish Ingredients 2 cans (14.5 each) black beans 1 cup breadcrumbs ½ cup white onion, chopped small 1 egg ½ teaspoon chili powder ½ tsp oregano or other italian seasoning ¼ tsp peppercorns salt 8 slices Swiss Cheese Olive oil, for frying Butter, for frying 4 hambuger buns Mayonnaise Lettuce or other oreens…