Its been a while since I posted a dark days update. And for me its still dark days since the farmer’s markets don’t open until May.

Last night I made black beans and acorn squash quesadillas. The filling was a recipe from Veganomicon (latest from Isa Chandra and Terri Romero) which I got via inter library loan. The recipe was actually for an empanada, but I’ve never had an empanada so I had no idea what it looked like. Plus I was too tired to be fashioning pretty little shapes out of dough. My husband always has a batch of dough ready to make tortillas which was what I used. We had just cooked the beans the night before in the crockpot, so I used the beans plus some old shriveled acorn squash that was starting to look really sad. To dress up the beans and squash, I fried onions, garlic in olive oil and added chilli powder (no japapenos), cumin and a bit of water to make the dish mashable.

It came out really well!

I also baked some potato chips which is one of my favorite and easiest snacks. I cut potatoes into bite size pieces and sprinkle oregano, chilli powder, cumin powder, salt and olive oil and bake it until done. I think these were called Jamaican jerk fries in Vegan with a Vengence.