
My boyfriend Jim is an excellent cook, and one of my favorite recipes of his is his refried beans. Easily made vegetarian or vegan, they totally blow canned beans out of the water, and are really quite simple to make.
Recipe and hot pictures after the cut!
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Categories: Cooking for College Kids
Tagged: bacon, beans, chipotle, Cooking for College Kids, dip, Mexican, recipe, refried beans, vegitarian

Those on the east coast got to experience the heat wave last week. To cope, I hid at my girlfriend’s apartment with central air. At home, my mom got treated to a 2 day power outage (the kind that cascaded across Jersey for various reasons). Trying to save the fridge food, she kept it stocked with some bags of ice.
It gets nasty after the break.
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Tagged: air conditioning, barf, blackout, Cooking for College Kids, diet, fda, Food, food poisoning, food safety, hamsteak, health, heat wave, ice, jersey, mom, power, power outage, safety, spoiled, temapture