The Neds thank The Adobe Bar in Taos for the inspiration for this great recipe. Thunder Bowl is basically beans and rice with a lot of other good stuff.
Start by cooking a cup of brown or black rice in 2 cups of water. While it is cooking, saute an onion with two Anaheim chiles, or some other green chile you like. Add to this some garlic or garlic granules to taste. Cook in butter or olive oil until translucent and the chiles are soft. Add a cut up tomato without the juice and seeds, and cook a bit longer, but don't cook the tomato too much. Mix a can of black or pinto beans with the chiles, onions, tomato, and heat.
Make some guacamole with an avocado, as much of the juice of one lime as you like, some finely chopped onion and as much chopped cilantro as you want, stems removed. Add as much hot sauce (Ned likes Tabasco green chile sauce) and salsa as you want.
When the rice is done, put some rice on your plate and slop some of the chile and beans mix over it. Add some guacamole, some salsa and grated goats-milk mozzarella or other low-salt cheese and enjoy. Makes enough for two. Ned doesn't use tortillas because most of them are just empty calories. If you like tortillas and you can get sprouted grain tortillas, have a couple of them, too.
