MERRY CHRISTMAS...

... following a 16-hour-per-day-biscuit-marathon-weekend and the usual pre-Christmas madness preparations; and absolutely no time to post recipes, so at least a couple of photos...

MEXICAN BAKED EGGS WITH BLACK BEANS, TOMATOES, CHILLI AND CORIANDER

With the final lot of black beans, found in the black hole back of my kitchen cupboard  a couple of weeks ago, in dire need to be used up, I made some more BLACK BEANS for BLACK BEAN BURRITOS, but was left with a bowl of cooked BLACK BEANS in the end. A Google search on beans and other ingredients in my pantry returned this lovely recipe from Kaylin's Kitchen. Like a Mexican cousin of the Italian 'Uova in Purgatorio' (Eggs in Purgatory) and the Israeli Shakshuka, I liked the look of it. I followed the instructions of the original recipe, but used up some ingredients I already had at home, replacing the small onion with 3 spring onions, the green chillis from a jar with a large fresh red chilli, and freshly cooked BLACK BEANS instead of tinned.