Perhaps a meaningful contribution... if you spend most of your time eating or thinking about eating... ahhh, like me.
The above is a nice kind of Southwesty type of thing that feels great when teamed up with a grilled piece of meat and a mixture of black beans, cilantro and corn, all topped off with a dollop of sour cream. Marinate the meat (chicken, beef, PORK, yes poke is very good) in mezcal (tequila can substitute, but the smokey flavor of mezcal adds charcter), lime juice, minced garlic and a little olive oil. The before you grill it shake some chili powder over it to taste.
But the veggies right? Pretty much the same deal as above.
First, an axiom to help prepare you for your trip to the grocery store: you can pick your peppers, but you can't pick your friends. No, your friends are criminals, but so heedless of the law, that they don't even realize they're criminals. Whether engaging in a bullshit contest with a self-righteous, Southern Baptist, "cop" on a public beach in Key West over the effects of second-hand marijuana smoke on his kids or leading you in a mad dash from the Samson Street Oyster Bar in Philadelphia with two angry oyster shuckers chasing you, your friends must be endured. Unlike peppers. I'd go with at least two different colors, you want a nice mix of colors in your food, obviously it makes the presentation much more impressive. And I'd pick my peppers based on the color of the other ingredients I was mixing them with. For the above picture I used red and green peppers, although in retrospect yellow instead of green would have worked better as I already had green apples. So it's green apples with the peppers, mushrooms, onions, ground cumin and a little cinnamon, all cut up in pieces about as long as your finger. We want em big because we're going to grill them. Put the veggies in a bowl and spray them with a little mezcal, a little vinegar and some lime juice about 30 minutes before you put them on the fire. The veggies should go on the grill last and served hot. When you're cooking the veggies put them in a grill basket or on grill tray so they don't fall in the fire below. You can get these grill implements at Home Depot or Lowes or even at your grocery store. And if you like to eat healthy but tasty, they make a great at-max $15 investment. When you're cooking the veg mixture, stir them up once a minute or so for a few minutes until they have the texture you want. Reach in and taste one and if it's too cripsy, leave the rest on, if not, take 'em off.
I'd arrange the beans and corn mixture as a lump in the center, put the meat on top of that and tumble the veggies around the periphery. There are a ton of variations you could do with this, but a good one is to take away the beans and corn and add plantain fries, or leave the beans.
Great well, I hope this counts as community service for my probie.