Black beans just don’t belong in brownies.  I knew this intuitively, but I so sincerely wanted to believe that Rocco’s Brownies, with black beans as a main ingredient, would taste like fudgy, gooey, brownie goodness that I suspended my native disbelief, and I truly expected these to taste amazing.  Man was I wrong.

As I continue to blog Nutrition Mondays, in honor of National Nutrition Month®, this week I’ll write the first of my cookbook reviews I announced last Monday.  I saw a few low-cal recipes from Rocco on ABCNews.com one morning as I was doing my early check of the headlines.  Apparently he had been on Good Morning America and prepared some recipes from his new book, Now Eat This!, including the aforementioned black bean brownies and a low-cal mac and cheese.  I seriously love mac and cheese.  So this seemed like a cookbook match made in heaven.  When I looked his book up online, I found that his concept was to makeover comfort foods, with a calorie content of 350 calories or less per serving.  I had to have that book, and » Read more: Nutrition Monday: Reviewing Rocco Dispirito’s Now Eat This!