Black Bean and Avocado Salad

Yeah, so this is what happened to my other avocado.  And this time, I remembered to grace you with my terrible photography.  I know it's awful.  One of my best traits is my inability to commit to commercial purchases over $100.  Ergo, the cheap point-and-shoot.  (EDIT: There's no photo; since I made a draft of this in January and it's now June, and the photos were soooo bad, I deleted all of them, totally forgetting this post)

Know what's not terrible?  Black bean salad.  This brings together the basics real quick in order to make sure husband and wife have a lunch to take to work the next day.

The beans are canned b/c it's too much work to make them.  The corn was frozen from the Maryland peak season, so it was sweet, crunchy and delicious, but canned will work too.  The cilantro is fresh because that's the only way it gives it flavor.  And the spices are completely ad-libbed.  So without further ado:

Black Bean and Avocado Salad
Modified from Meal in a Hass Avocado

Ingredients:
1 Avocado, diced
1 (15 1/2 oz) can of black beans
1 (10 oz?  is that the standard size?) can of corn kernels
1 large carrot, shredded (I did it myself on my grater b/c I won't pay for a machine to do it for me)
1/2 bunch of green onions, thinly sliced (go with your gut)
1/4 lime
2 shakes of cayenne
4 shakes of chili powder
2 shakes of celery salt

Directions: squeeze the lime over the diced avocado to prevent browning, then mix everything together.  I made the whole thing in the colander I rinsed the beans in, then portioned it out into lunch containers.  It made two and a half lunches (stupid amount.  the original recipe said to use salsa.  If I had, maybe I would have gotten three lunches and not have had to make up my spices.)

To be or not to be

Soooo....  The internet is a spooky place, huh?  Five posts all in January and it yielded thirty-one page views!  I certainly didn't tell anyone to come here and read.  I guess it's how the winds blows.

When I began this blog I was flying high on resolutions of the new year, I was mildly incapacitated by vein ablation surgery, and I had this vain idea that I actually had time to blog.  Or that I would be willing to tell anyone anything about myself... I'm not well known for sharing.  However, in light of how smitten I was with my "Food Matters" cookbook by Mark Bittman, and how I wanted to get into crafting, this seemed like a good idea.

It's June now.  Time for half-year resolutions?  Are those a thing?  (Obviously not, since the crowds at the gym have thoroughly thinned over the months)

So okay, I'll try to blog.  I've been doing a ton and I can detail some of it and maybe even be entertaining to some of you (we'll see about that last part).  And even if no one cares, maybe I'll learn something about myself. 

Once a week.  It's not like I have anything else meaningful to do with my time.

Here is another picture of the best cat in the world, just to keep a potential viewer here to a half-second more: