Sweet potato sandwich with sun-dried tomatoes

Recommended ingredients:

Bread
Sweet potato (cut into round slices)
Sun dried tomatoes (sliced into strips)
Zucchini or eggplant (sliced lengthwise)
Fresh basil leaves
Mushrooms (sliced)
Onion (sliced thinly)
Parsley

About the recipe:

Don't forget about sandwiches, the easiest and fastest meal you can make. It is a great way to use up loose vegetables. Serve with salad or anything else.

Directions:

1. Fry sweet potato. Put aside
2. Fry zucchini or eggplant. Put aside
3. Fry mushrooms
4. Toast bread and put Dijon mustard on one side
5. Assemble sandwich

Tip: Serve with ketchup or a sprinkling of balsamic vinaigrette inside sandwich.

Tip: To make balsamic vinaigrette, put olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and mustard into small container, shake.
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Chili Non Carne (Meat-free)

Main ingredients:

1lb or so beans (try mix of 2 beans, about 3 handfuls each)
1/2 medium onion
3 cloves garlic
chili paste
3 tbsp soy sauce
handful of TVP beef substitute (textured vegetable protein flakes)
1 laurel leaf

Optional ingredients:

3 small tomatoes
5 mushrooms (Button, Shiitake, or 1 large portobello)
2 tbsp ketchup or tomato sauce

About the ingredients:

Beans are an excellent source of protein and significantly lower cholesterol. (Source: Biggs, et al. Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit) If you are worried about gas, your body does get used to beans over time if you eat them regularly.

Tips:

1. Use nutritious vegetable stock instead of water
2. Lightly toast the cumin on a frying pan (do not burn!).

Short directions:

1. Boil beans
2. Fry TVP, onion, mushrooms and/or other vegetables
3. Mix, add cumin, soy sauce, chili paste, salt
4. Cook well

Full directions:

1. Soak beans overnight (if possible)
2. Boil beans covered with water or stock by 1 inch (should take an 1 hour if soaked)
3. While the beans are boiling, dice and fry onion and mushrooms
4. When onion is golden, add tomato and garlic
5. Separately, put TVP in pan with a bit of water, fry well with a lime leaf and any sauce
6. Add fried onion/mushrooms, fried TVP, laurel leaf, and pinch of cumin to beans
7. Add soy sauce, chili paste to taste
8. Add tomato paste or ketchup if using it
9. Add salt, pepper, and dash of cumin
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