Black beans and rice

• make about two cups of rice (I usually use white but you can use brown rice, just more cooking time). 
• heat up two cans of black beans in a microwave safe bowl. 
• cut up radishes in really thin little slices, cube some avocados and chop up some red onions. 
• Once the rice is ready, serve it in to bowl with about half the amount of warm black beans on top.  The rest of the toppings, radishes, avo and onion everyone add to their own bowls at the table. 
• add salt, pepper and olive oil and balsamic vinegar (my husband prefers red wine vinegar) right over my rice/bean/veggie mix.  Stir it all together and enjoy!

The kids love it and so do the adults.  Sometimes I will take smoked oysters and spice them up with salt, pepper, lemon juice and tabasco for the adults to add to their bowls!

**recipe provided by:

Melanie Smith

Noah (14), Joshua and Zoe (4 next week!!!) and Ryan (19months).