Corn tomato pasta salad

Story: I stole this one from the Rachel Ray magazine as well.

Ingrediants:
mini star pasta (original was orzo, but Smith's doesn't have it)
2-3 roma tomatoes
1 can kernel corn
1/2 red onion chopped
3 Tbs olive oil
2 Tbs vinegar (I used rice but red would be more normal)
garlic, basil cilantro or other spices

1. cook the pasta and drain.
2. toss pasta, tomoatoes, onion, and corn
3. mix remaining ingrediants into a sauce.

Yummy!

southern Tortillas

Story: I scammed this idea from the Rachel Ray Everyday mag December issue, then modified to make even easier.

Essential ingredients:
Tortillas
Black Beans
leftover cooked sweet potato
cheese
Other good but non essential ingredients:
Salsa ( I used a mediocre mango salsa from costco)
green onions
chicken (canned or fresh cooked up in the frying pan)
cilantro
hot sauce
. . .

You shouldn't need directions. I put cheese on one half of the tortilla and sweet potato on the other and then fold in half around the other stuff, the sweet potato helps it hold together. I'm a solid frying pan tortialla person but I suppose a microwave would be fine. I used leftover baked sweet potatoe caserole, but I think any version (roasted, baked, etc) would work.