SPICY BLACK BEAN + AVOCADO QUESADILLA

It's a good thing that I don't attempt to post daily meal photos here, because things would get real repetitive real fast. Once I find a meal that I love, I have a tendency to eat it every day until I get sick of it. Avocado toast, omelettes, quinoa bowls, black bean burgers... At the moment, I am obsessed with this quesadilla.

SPICY BLACK BEAN + AVOCADO QUESADILLA | Makes one quesadilla

Ezekiel brown rice tortilla, thawed
clove of garlic
tsp EVOO
1/2 cup black beans, cooked
1/2 avocado
handful of chopped greens
cherry tomatoes
Daiya shredded cheddar
salt + pepper, to taste
sriracha (sub brown sugar for honey/maple syrup, or eliminate sugar)
greek yogurt/almond yogurt

In a bowl, mash black beans and avocado with sriracha, salt and pepper. Coarsely chop greens and tomato.

Place tortilla in a large pan. Cut garlic clove in half, and rub the tortilla. Spread the same side with olive oil to lightly coat. Flip to the other side and add black beans + avocado mixture, greens, tomatoes, and Daiya to one half. Cook over medium heat until browned on one side, flip, and continue to cook.

Top with greek yogurt. Serve.

THE MAY PLAYLIST

Better late than never.
Listen also on Grooveshark (minus a couple tracks).

CURRENTLY

The view from my run the other morning. I always have to pinch myself whenever I'm in Fish Creek Park, which is a mere 4km from my home. It's hard to believe that this park is right in the middle of the city. 

Reading: I got a library card a few months ago and have been getting great use out of it. The only downside is that a good chunk of books that I'd put on hold all came in at the same time, so I've been struggling to read them all before their due dates. Between work and work outs, I've been left with very little time to read, but I'm slowly getting through them. I've just finished reading Pandora's Lunchbox and am now waiting on the rest of my holds to come in. The rest of my stack are also all food/agricultural politics related.

Watching: I finished watching Mad Men a couple weeks ago and am now at a loss for what to watch. It's season finale time = lots of reruns and really nothing to watch. I joke that this is the time of year when I have to start having a social life, because my nights are no longer filled with television.

Thinking about: Gardening! I am so, so, so excited about the progress that has been made, and can't wait to get my hands in the soil a little more often. I wrote about the progression recently.

Anticipating: Warm weather. I have said in the past that I looooove the rain, but I think that I really just loooooove the West coast. IT IS NOT THE SAME in Calgary. When it rains, it is cold and windy. I was really loving not needing to wear a jacket, walking everywhere, running every morning, etc. I am hopeful for more of that. 

Listening to: I got a new laptop for my birthday, and have so far made the decision not to transfer my full iTunes library to it. Instead, I subscribed to rdio, and have been more or less loving it. The perks are that I can use it everywhere and have access to most all artists and albums. The downside is that it's kind of a clusterfuck in that my collection is not organized to my liking. Still though, money well spent. I've been going through short music obsessions like a full day of 80s one hit wonders, or revisiting the cheesy pop punk that I used to love so much. I'm also really into Junip, the new Vampire Weekend album, MS MR, and Sea Wolf.