Mexican Food Mondays

Monday morning started with a follow up cataract surgery appointment at the hospital. Like so many times here silly little appointments and errands takes the entirety of the day. Marty left a bit early for school with Josie.  Benjamin and I left and had to put Mogli into the kitchen/winter garten where he stays when we have to leave him.  We don't leave him much as one of us is normally around but when we do have to leave him the kitchen and with his water and food and windows.  He has caught on to the trick of "Come here Mogli, want a treat?" then we shut him in.  He doesn't like it but he doesn't cry or whine or scratch at the door.  He seems totally fine when we return. Normally he is sitting on the chair we tell him not to sit on.  He feels like he got away with something and to be honest, I could care less about the chair but if he thinks he is being tricky and bad by sitting in it while we are gone I will keep making him think he shouldn't be in it.
So Benjamin and I were a bit late leaving for school.  We arrived just as the first bell (they have 10 more minutes before the tardy bell rings) rang.  But this meant that I missed the bus I was going to take to meet Marty at the hospital for his eye appointment.  Fine, I will just wait for the next one.  It was a particularly rainy day.  It doesn't rain much here or at least not as much as in Seattle. But when it does it makes bike riding miserable and buses are typically late.  So I waited for nearly 30 minutes for the bus to come by that I needed.  Normally buses come by every 10 ish minutes.  So I got to the hospital late but no worries... Marty hadn't even been seen yet.  Drs here seem to always make you wait.  And especially at the hospital when they have more severe and unique cases.
Finally he is seen and the Dr.s all agree that his progress is right on track, his eyesight continues to improve as does the healing.
We leave and try to catch the bus back home but just as we are approaching the street we see the bus we wanted pull away. Damn!!  That bus only comes once every 20 minutes.  So we take the same bus going in the opposite direction and hit the grocery store on the way to the Sbahn.  I really wanted to make this sweet potato/black bean enchilada recipe.  I knew it would be hard here as Germans do not do Mexican food in restaurants or the groceries to make it yourself.  I knew I needed jalepeños.  Sometimes I can find the fresh ones here.  I also knew I needed black beans but I had already stocked up awhile back at the Asian Store.  Regular grocery stores do not sell normal black beans.  They only have black beans in this nasty "chili sauce"  To get the regular black beans one must make a special trip to the Asian Store.  Just FYI - this is also the only place to find Edamame, brown sugar and often baking soda. 
SO... at the store by the sbahn they only had about half the things I needed.  We finish shopping, I give Marty my grocery bag and I take my extra one. He heads home with the groceries from the first store.  It is still super rainy and I don't want to ride my bike the extra 15 minutes to get to all the specialty stores.  Thankfully a bus comes within a few minutes that takes me to the ONE store I have found here that sells normal jarred salsa (I specifically needed salsa verde for the enchiladas) and it turns out that they also sell flour and corn tortillas and canned jalepeños.  But this is a specialty store selling mostly wine and some specialty items from mostly Italy and Spain and apparently.. the US.  The Salsa is definitely imported from the US.  So I stock up.  But then I also need to go to a different normal grocery store for cheddar cheese and a few other items.  I ended up buying a package of small green peppers that I would roast and then seed and chop to replace the two cans of

green chilies. 
By 12:30 I'm back home, unloading the groceries and making lunch. Clean up and then have to head out (in the rain) riding my bike to the school I will be subbing at to turn in my final paperwork.  When I get home Benjamin and his buddy Lukas are here eating a snack.  They play for a bit and then want to play his new Extreme Uno card game.  It beeps and deals the cards for you with a touch of the button but he needed batteries.  I give the boys some money and they walk to the store to buy some.  The weather had finally cleared and it was sunny again.  Crazy weather.  The boys play their UNO game.  I do not forget to get Lukas on his bus home and the enchiladas turned out DELICIOUS. Seriously, one of the most amazing meals I have made in a very long time.  I have been nailing the vegetarian dinners lately and I need to remember these recipes when I am in a rut. And another post in the category of "what do I do with my days"

Here is the recipe.
https://cookieandkate.com/black-bean-sweet-potato-enchiladas/
 Try it!!  You won't be disappointed and it will be SO much easier when you can go to one store and buy everything at once and not have to roast your own green chilies.