Delicious Enchiladas (and vegan, too)

Unfortunately, there is no mexican cuisine on this dang 'ol island. 

I love mexican food! The thing about it though,  its usually jam packed with cheese and animal-gizzard juice. In the states you go for mexican and you eat a pound of chips and a quart of salsa, drink a beer the size of a newborn baby, and THEN get your cheesy, greasy, beefy entreezy... without a doubt you are basically waddling out to the car with a very distorted buzz- its like "yeah, I am kinda drunk, but I am so damn full" and typically pass out the minute you arrive home. 

Yes, I have a point. A positive one - A RECIPE. This is my first recipe as an island slicker- hope you use it and love it:

"Vegan" Black bean Enchiladas

serves 2 hungry people

You will need:

2 hands (one would work)

Intuition

1 can black beans

a handfull of diced green peppers and a separate hand full of diced onions

a tiny can of tomato paste

olive oil

chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, & salt

flour

4 small flour tortillas

-First, rinse your beans and then squish them a little -

-Heat olive oil and saute the pepper and onion

-Throw in the squished beans- and just let that cook together on low-med. heat

-Next, heat some more olive oil - maybe 1/4 cup and add a handful of flour and chili powder

almost equal parts of flour and chili powder

-Whisk this mixture, making sure not to let the flour burn (ew! stinky) and you will have a rue

-add the tomato paste and briefly stir - you will notice it becomes very thick so start adding water- stirring, adding, stirring, adding

-you want it to be thin because it will thicken when you bake it.

-So, allow that to simmer and at last add cumin, garlic powder, and salt

-Taste, add, taste, add, and taste

- use intuition with proportions.

-Put on very low heat

- microwave your tortillas so they are easy to manipulate

-spread squished beans onto tortillas

-roll into whatever you think an enchilada should look like

-place in a casserole dish - pour sauce all over

-bake for as long as it takes you to make some rice

unless of course it takes you longer than 10-14 minutes

Boom! Done. 

Really simple and extremely delicious and healthy! I went to the pool after I ate- a good sign of not feeling like a complete fat ass after eating mexican food. 

I don't have any photographic evidence that I ever prepared this 

 It's because my camera is sub-par and so are my eating utensils- I want you to actually try this recipe and the pictures may have been a bit of a deterrent.

 However, I will share some random pictures.

this is where the magic happens