Cooking with Rice, Beans, and Pasta 

1.	Try brown rice.
2.	Try 10-minute brown rice.
3.	Have rice for breakfast cereal.
4.	Make a chicken and rice casserole.
5.	Make a rice and chili bean casserole.
6.	Try sweet rice.
7.	Have stir-fry over rice.
8.	Cook a pot of beans to use for three meals.
9.	Make lentil soup.
10.	Make black bean soup.
11.	Make southern bean soup from pinto beans.
12.	Try split pea soup.
13.	Enjoy minestrone soup.
14.	Roll up mashed beans in tortilla shells.
15.	Stuff beans in pita bread.
16.	Serve beans in casserole.
17.	Make bean tacos.
18.	Use beans in taco salad.
19.	Mash garbanzo beans for a sandwish spread.
20.	Mix white beans with pasta.
21.	Fix pasta with olive oil, parmesan cheese, parsley, and minced garlic.
22.	Use new shapes of pasta with spaghetti sauce.
23.	Make black-eyed peas.
24.	Try couscous.
25.	Try whole wheat couscous.
26.	Try boxed tabouli salad.
27.	Make a three-bean salad.
28.	Take a bean dish to a potluck.
29.	Cook a southern supper with beans, cornbread, and greens.

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