Not that all our dinners have been or need to be vegetarian, but the beans do have a certain heartiness that leave me feeling satisfied, not craving meat like after some vegetarian dishes made primarily from vegetables. And there is certainly something to be said about not hassling with meat. I like not having to worry about getting to the chicken in the fridge before it goes bad. I don't like frozen meat because freezing it reduces the quality, you have to take it out the night before and thus still worry about using it before it goes bad, and you end up with cuts in the freezer of questionable dates. At $0.35 - $0.55 per pound for beans and rice before water is added .vs $4.00-$10.00 per pound for meat before water is cooked out, we're looking at a 10-20 fold increase in cost for meat. That makes sense because I remember reading that you have to feed a cow 10 pounds of grain to make a pound of beef, or something like that. And Emily and I think that the rice and beans might be easier to digest than meat.
Now, don't get me wrong, we're not going vegetarian. In fact, as Emily was frying up the bacon at the start of the Polenta Slop a few nights back, we both were drooling over the scent and agreed that bacon would be the ultimate barrier to going vegetarian. Ev, I'm sure you'd agree.
Last night's dinner... Mexican rice and beans wrapped in homemade flour tortillas. Really Honey, you're gettin' crazy.
Tonight's dinner, leftover rice and beans and vegetable enchiladas with sauce made from scratch (there's no stopping her).
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