Jump Back 8/24/08

We've tried Scampi. We've had steak. We've done a thousand variations on stir-fry. The difficulty of our meals has varied widely, but even with the simpler food, it's taken some attention to cut up meat and steam vegetables. Not this time.

Much of our protein comes from meat, but because we shop once a week and don't have a lot in the freezer, we tend to run out in the days leading up to that important weekly ritual. In preparation, we bought canned baked beans for that shortage. Unfortunately, we couldn't think of anything in particular to with the beans we had, since they were already sitting in sauce and had instructions on how to use them. So we just followed instructions.

Beans and rice are a solid combination. Probably a staple in many diets. And for a ridiculously simple meal, it was delicious. We put some rice in the rice cooker, dumped the beans in our saucepan, put some cabbage in (because we figured we needed something else and our theme, of course, is that everything goes in), added a little barbecue sauce for flavor, and let it simmer.


Mixed in with the rice, it was by far the densest meal we've had so far. Perfectly simple, perfectly filling.


I'm impressed with the variety of meals we've tried (more varied than we blog about) and how we've actually tried to do better than typical college food, but I can appreciate that every meal doesn't have to have 7 different elements mixed into a masterpiece. Sometimes simple just tastes good.