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"A south of the border blend of textures and flavors. serve hot as a main dish or a side dish with grilled meat or chicken."

Ingredients: cilantro, fresh ground pepper...

"Use this as a side dish to a meal. It is a bit different than ordinary vegetables. This can also be a vegetarian meal."

Ingredients: long grain brown rice, margarine...

"This is my family's take on a wonderful comfort food."

Ingredients: pepper, cumin, garlic...

"Make this as spicy as you wish,add more or less,cumin, coriander, chili powder and jalapeno. We like it hot!! from Company's comming - diabetic cooking."

Ingredients: ground cumin, long grain brown rice...

"This recipe comes for August/September 2004 Light & Tasty. It makes a wonderful side dish or with all the veggies and nuts it can stand alone as a light main dish."

Ingredients: dried basil, frozen peas...

"I love summer squash with tomato sauce and Italian herbs, and this healthy vegetarian/vegan dish is so simple to prepare, very filling and delicious. It comes from vegetarian.about.com, and I didn't change too much about it. Originally it called for fresh herbs, but I really don't like using fresh herbs in the crock pot, so I used dried instead,..."

Ingredients: summer squash, dried basil...

"I tried Kashi black beans and mango salsa, and have thought about making some ever since. So here is a Caribbean version. To be really healthy, saute vegetables in water or other liquid, or you may use the olive oil. Your choice! Enjoy! Recipe is from Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D."

Ingredients: cilantro, pepper, cucumbers...

"Found this recipe on Prevention.com and modified it slightly... it's actually very good, healthy and simple! Also looks very nice, because of the beautiful colors."

Ingredients: dried basil, fresh cilantro...

Ingredients: dried apricots, fresh ground black pepper...

"I took a simple cabbage recipe that I found on a vegan website and spruced it up to add more "substance". This takes less than 20 minutes to throw together, so on busy nights I love to prepare this - it's very warm & cheesy and so it's the perfect comfort food. Plus, it's almost a 1-dish meal, though I like mine with a small..."

Ingredients: pepper, nutritional yeast...

"This easy, delicious dish is a great way to get healthy whole-grains and fiber into your diet. It could be a vegetarian or meatless main dish or even a side dish. It is simple to prepare and quick. If you like more spice, add a little cayenne."

Ingredients: cumin, dried oregano...

"I found this recipe ages ago as a base for a vegetable stew. I have yet to get to the stew part. These two ingredients make a complete protein and I find it very satisfying. For breakfast, I love it heated with a bit of Splenda Brown Sugar, cinnamon, a dash of cayenne and a touch of butter."

Ingredients: green lentils, olive oil, salt...

"If you remember to soak your beans the night before, I salute you. This recipe is for the rest of us. On their own these rice and beans are bland as all get out, but after cooking you can spruce them up by stirring in some olive oil and a few dashes of Tabasco, or some sesame oil and soy sauce, or some recaito, or whatever you like.

I've..."

Ingredients: dried red kidney beans, water...

"Not lovely to look at, but lovely to eat. What you get is sort of a lightly spiced lentil and al dente rice mush, which is nevertheless quite tasty. Made this up based on what I had on hand (which was not much), so feel free to add or modify. It would probably be nice wrapped in a tortilla for a bag lunch."

Ingredients: coriander, cumin...