Organic Black Bean Enchiladas

Today's lunch may be a little less photogenic than others because the main course was so large that I kind of had to squeeze it in there to fit. I am sure it will still be delicious though. I didn't have a lot of time to cook something up last night so I resorted to the freezer full of storebought items. Today I've got some Amy's Organic Black Bean Enchiladas. They were really nice looking right out of the package, but of course I messed them up squeezing them into the green container. They smelled really good too when I was cooking them. I am looking forward to eating them later today.

The red container holds some spanish rice that I whipped up from a package of cheap store-brand stuff. I ate a little bit of it last night and it is actually very good. I guess it's probably hard to really mess rice up though huh?

There were some black beans cooking at home all day yesterday in the slow cooker, so I grabbed a couple of big spoonfuls of those and added them to today's lunch. Black beans are one of my favorite types of beans and I intend on making some Southwestern dishes, similar to the storebought stuff I am eating today, using black beans in the near future. I have been discovering some wonderful vegan food blogs here lately with tons of great recipes that I am determined to try out very soon for my lunchbox.

I filled the last empty container with a VwaV Best Pumpkin Muffin. It was the last one left from the batch that I made a few days ago. I guess I will have to drag a cookbook out tonight and cook up another batch of something for desserts for the rest of the week.

Here's a good place to give a little tip about reheating your lunch in the microwave if you are using one of the Laptop Lunches lunchboxes to pack your lunch in. All microwaves vary in power so you may, of course, have to adjust these times, but this is what I have found works really well for me. If I only have one large container (like the red one or the green one) to reheat, I just remove the lid and microwave it for 1 minute on HIGH. This is assuming it is cold from where you have had it stored in the carrying case with an ice pack. If I have 3 containers to heat up, like I do today (2 large ones and 1 small one), I remove any lids and place all 3 containers in the microwave at the same time and nuke them for 2 minutes on HIGH. So far this has worked really well and gets everything nice and hot without drying it out.

Well, that about does it for Wednesday. If you are reading this then you have made it over to the new website. I won't be updating the old one anymore so make sure you always come to the new address www.veganlunchcast.com from now on. Thanks for visiting today and I'll see you tomorrow!