OOOps 20-365 beginning to become a habit with me

Again....put wee man to sleep and fell asleep, just as well really given Archie and Sadie were both up at 5.30 am.

So, I was planning on Friday's happiness being Pico de gallo or our Williams family version of it.
Other than our banana and porridge every morning (rock n roll, huh) Pico is our most eaten food, by everyone except -Archie, who still can't be persuaded to consume a single vegetable - thank goodness he loves fruit.
At Pugs party last sat night I promised I'd post the recipe for this. My lovely mom in law, Cathrine taught me how to make this years ago, before Pugs and I were a couple and she and I worked together. We have adapted it slightly, but its basically the same thing.

Tomatoes
Avocado - that's our addition, although I often make it with cucumber A la Grammy Cathrine.
Onions
Coriander - fresh
Lime juice - fresh
Chilli - I often omit if we are eating a really spicy chilli or beans. Soemtimes I add chipolte sauce.
Salt and pepper
So simple, chop everything and mix it together, it tastes best after a wee while soaking up all the flavours and chilled.

We eat this with, beans as already posted, Quesadillas, dolloped on corn chowder, topping black bean and chorizo soup, or on its own with salty corn chips....mmmmmmmmm

9-365 ole happiness, Pugs beans mmmmmm

After the 1st day back at work after holidays it was lovely to come home to Pug's awesome home cooked mexican beans salsa and rice. It is a weekly staple meal for us, we eat beans and rice and Archie has his in a quesadilla.

Beans Recipe -
Soak a bag of either pintos or black beans over night in a big bowl of water.
Next morning drain, rinse and put in big pan of water.
Add an onion and spices, we use a mexican seasoning mix, chipoltes and natures seasoning.
Bring to boil, then leave to simmer for 3 hrs give or take.
Once soft, fry a few rashers of smoked bacon, streaky is best but any kind is good (sometimes I use chorizo if I have any), once cooked start to add your cooked beans, don't worry about draining them too much a bit of cooking juice helps add flavour and general mushiness...mmmmm Then mash mash mash.
Once sloppy mashed loveliness happens, put in oven dish cover in cheese and bake in oven.

Sounds labour intensive, but totally worth it and it does 3 dinners in various guises.

Look how much Sadie enjoyed hers........