Dinner Plate #100
Here's a plate of cheap but good things: Bell pepper rice (recipe from Living Lou ), spinach mushroom beans (recipe from Vegan Richa ), green beans, and corn casserole (recipe from Cook Eat Live Love ). The rice is good but very mild and a bit bland--it was fine as a foil for well-seasoned beans, but I'd cook it in broth next time. But it also fits one of my general cooking habits of adding vegetables wherever possible, and it added a nice pop of red, too! The spinach mushroom beans were to use up more of the beans I cooked from dry. (So, so many beans...I feel a bit embarrassed that I haven't been cooking beans from dry.) It also used up some frozen spinach and the end of a package of mushrooms. For the non-dairy sour cream, I made my own from cashews and lemon juice I had on hand. That sour cream also went into the corn casserole, along with a can of cream-style corn I'd had for ages (and thus I didn't need to blend the corn up). I loved this. So, so comforting...
