Quinoa and Black Beans

Hello friends, so this is a very easy fasting recipe I wanted to share. It takes about 40 minuets to make and you can eat on it for a few days.

Quinoa and Black Beans

Ingredients:

1 T of vegetable oil (some may not choose to use vegetable oil, but I will post it anyway)

1 onion

3 cloves garlic

1 red pepper

3/4 c uncooked quinoa

1 can vegetable broth

1 tsp ground cumin

salt and pepper

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper Or chill powder since I didn't have any

1 can corn

1 can black beans

Cilantro, optional

lime juice, optional

Saute onion and garlic and oil on Medium heat till brown.

Add red pepper, quinoa and vegetable broth, bring to a boil, cover and simmer over low to medium heat for 20 minutes

Add corn, simmer for about 5 minutes

Add black beans simmer for another 5 minutes

Garnish with cilantro and lime, optional

I hope you all enjoy.

Also as today marks day 2 of Great Lent, I have a one thing I would like to put into practice, a prayer rule. As the overachiever, I said my prayers yesterday morning and well since I didn't have to work, no biggie.. I had no schedule. Then last night, said them again. Do you know what the first thing that popped into my head was this morning? Oh dang, I have to pray again.. like hello wasn't last night enough? As you can see I have no discipline in my life, and praying should be one of them. As of all the things we get to do as Christians, I should enter into prayer with so much more joy than I do. Forgive me a sinner and Lord have mercy.

I will leave you with this quote from a book I am reading, it has played a few times in my mind.

"The lenten spring is welcomed by Christians in the Church not as the time for self-inflicted agony or self-improving therapy. It is greeted as the sanctified season consecrated to the correction, purification and enlightenment of the total person though the fulfillment of the commandments of the crucified God." Thomas Harko - The Lenten Spring.