Beanmix with couscous

I had more leftover beans after making the bean brownies, and i had bean-burgers yesterday so i felt like having something different for dinner today. I searched some blogs and got the idea of making something like refried beans.

This ended up in me making this (which tasted awesome!):

Ingredients:
0,5 onion, chopped
1 mushroom, chopped
0,25 bouillon cube + some water
~100 grams (black) beans
2 tablespoons tomatopuré
Soy sauce
Spices: cumin, coriander, chili, paprika, onion, cayenne, nutritional yeast, salt, pepper

Couscous
0,25 bouillon cube + boiling water
1 teaspoon lemon juice

First i sauted the onion and mushroom in the water and bouillon cube, then i added the beans and the tomatopuré, and i tried to squeeze the beans a bit too =p Then i added the spices and soy sauce. Meanwhile make the couscous with bouillon cube and boiling water, and add the lemon juice to it. Then mix everything together =p I also added cucumber ^.^ Delicious! =D

Chocolate-zucchini muffins

Zucchini rocks, specially in baking ^.^ (and for dinner =p)

I found a recipe for chocolate-zucchini muffins here at happy herbivore (english), and i just had to make it! =D

I'm happy i did, this stuff is yammie! =D

I also added nuts in, which made it even better ^.^

So if anyone got leftover zucchini that they wanna use, chocolate-zucchini muffins is a yammie way to do it =p

Black bean brownies

Yesterday i boiled up some black beans i had in the closet. I decided to make brownies since i had heard that bean brownies are yummy =p I kinda followed 2 recipes, the below one on vegetarbloggen (norwegian) and the one it was based on from happy herbivore (english).

I followed a bit from each recipe (they are more or less the same) and added whatever i thought was needed. A bit annoying was it that it doesnt say amount of boiled beans the recipes use, only canned or dry, so i used 375 gram. I shared with my family and they said it tasted ok, but they could be better (this was also my opinion). Maybe more chocolate or sugar would help, since they were lacking some taste kinda =p And also nuts in would be great i think! =D The dough tasted better than the finished brownies, so i can save myself an hour there by just eating the dough instead, if i dont plan to make brownies from it =p

They dont taste like beans btw =p But it could be smart to tell people that they contain beans after they ate from it, since some people are sceptical to beans in their brownies and wont taste it if they know @_@

Bean-rice

This is a yummy recipe that i sometimes make with beans =p I found it somewhere on vegweb some years ago, but i dont remember exactly how the recipe went and i dont find it atm, so here is what i did with possibly other amounts of ingredients =p

Ingredients:
0,5 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
Olive oil
1 bouillon cube+water
0,75 dl rice
Basil to taste (i think i use like 1-2 tablespoons)
0,5 can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
Salt and pepper to taste.

Saute the onion and garlic, add the water and bouillon cube and rice and simmer. Spice with basil and add kidney beans either while the rice is simmering or after, i dont remember what gave best result. Spice with salt and pepper and possibly add more olive oil, but i didnt have that =(

Tastes very good with tomato =p I also added some boiled potatoes in it this time since there were some in the fridge, and i served it with tomato and cucumber.

Revival

I guess i should revive my blog since it's a handy tool for finding recipes that i like =p

Currently i live in Norway with my parents and brother and sometimes my sister lives here too, and i got myself a job at Right Price Tiles now where i sell tiles. It's a nice job, but i dont know too much about tiles so i often feel like i'm a bit misplaced when people want something i dont know.

I work full time, so i dont have much time for cooking or other things. Most of the time i get home at 21 or so, and then i dont really feel like cooking, so i binge on snacks instead >.> Luckily my mom sometimes has some meals ready for me when i get home so i get some warm dinners during the week =p Thanks mom! <3

At work we get fresh bread every day, normally one white and one brown. I usually eat the brown one with strawberry jam or sometimes with mustard and cucumber for breakfast and lunches at work =p

In august i plan to start studying again since i found no jobs that needed my bachelor in physics >.> Hopefully i get into the master program in renewable energy. I guess there might be some more jobs that want/need me then xD I'm fearing the master though, and i dont really want to study since i have no motivation to study, and i feel bad since im not studying while i know i should be studying, and i'm also forbidding myself from having fun since i should be studying =/ So basicly i'm wasting time doing nothing =/ But i guess i'll survive a master, just like i survived my bachelor -_-

If anyone wonder what to study, i reccomend to study something you have interests for where you can get a job after (unless you like to study or so, then you can choose whatever you wanna xD).
I feel my degree is kinda useless, so my options are:
1. Have a job where no degree is needed (easy to get).
2. Take a completely new degree in another subject (3+ years).
3. Build further with a master (2 years).
4. Search for a job that would want a bachelor in physics (hard to get).
I picked option 1 and 3 since they are the quickest =p And i guess it might sound more impressive with a master than with a bachelor =p