My easy favourites are a slow cooked bean filling, a sweet salad, veggies and condiments galore. Chop some red capsicum and cook this down with a red onion in a splash of olive oil and the first shake of your herb of choice. - (my secret ingredient is dill!) When these are soft and the capsicum is nice and juicy. Add some tinned beans - (any ones you want, but I usually like to use soft beans like kidney or butter) chuck in a few chopped fresh tomatoes, a few chillies, some red onion, a splash of red wine - you will probably have to pour yourself a glass or two to aid the preparation ... another shake of herb of choice and chuck in a couple more chopped fresh tomatoes,
With this spicy bean dish a fresh sweeter dish matches the flavours really well. I know that raw corn might be an acquired taste, an if you dont like it chopped cucumber woud do just as well. If you do like raw corn - chop the corn of a cob with a sharp knife (it woks best with a sharpy) add it to half a chopped red onion, a couple of generous handfuls of italian parsley, dash o salt and pepper and a slug of oliver oil. Mix it, add it to the table!
Sauteed mushrooms, zucchini, stir fired tofu, roasted capsicums (slice them, put them on a sheet of oil, drizzle a little olive oil, wrap the foil like a parcel. You can then put the whole parcel on a hot frypan (or if you happen to have fired the barbie this is also a delicious option). Whatever other filling you feel like. I always have chopped lettuce, fresh tomato, jalepanos, sour cream grated cheese home made guacamole and that delicious taco sauce that comes in shiny bottles.
Put everything on a table when you've zapped desired taco shells, tortillas or corn chips. Dig in.
Hopefully you've have an excellent friend also making these - Sian melted lindt 85% cocoa chocolate (we chose this as it was vegan - but you can use anything) and melted it and covered the strawberries - she ten sprinkled some chilli powder over some as a treat for us chili addicts :)
