Good Eats: Gallo Pinto

Each week we bring you our favorite eating and cooking from our friends at Serious Eats. This week there's a quick and easy dinner (cheap, too) from Costa Rica. It has one secret ingredient to give its humble ingredients bold flavor, but it's still one of the quickest weeknight dinners for the summer. Plus there's a corn chowder with cheese, a guide to vinegar, oatmeal cookie pancakes, and more!

• Dinner Tonight: Gallo Pinto - A new way to use black beans.

• Photo of the Day: 'Where the Wild Things Are' Cake - Monster cake!

• Guide to Filipino Vinegars - We didn't know that there are so many vinegars in Filipino cuisine: coconut, palm, cane...

• Dinner Tonight: Corn Chowder with Cheddar - This looks gorgeous and delicious. Summer soup at its finest.

• Oatmeal Cookie Pancakes Recipe - From Joy the Baker, a sweet treat for breakfast.

Previous Good Eats: Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Portobellos

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Comments (5)

gallo pinto! it really is a staple--for 10 days in costa rica, we had it every morning... and when i got home, after a short break from it, i started making it again. the leftover beans and rice from the day before make for a perfect breakfast--or, in the states, maybe breakfast for dinner.

Love this stuff. Breakfast... good. Lunch... good. Dinner... good. We made sure to have a big bowl of this on the dinner table at our wedding reception. It is such a Tico dish that we had to do it since we were getting married in their country.

Oh yay! I have a couple of cups of cooked black beans in the freezer that I was thinking I really should use soon.

Yay gallo pinto! I just got back from Costa Rica a few months ago, and it really is ubiquitous - they even sell it at Burger King (one of three food options in that tiny airport). It's primarily a breakfast food, which was odd at first, but I could eat rice and beans anytime, so no real hardship!

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As stated above... it's actually a breakfast food. With some eggs, bacon, tortillas, and fresh cheese... yum!