No ketchup - well no loss there, it is a pathetic substitute for salsa mexicana made fresh ... and sugared - uggh ... but no mushrooms - well personally i would find that limiting ... also mustard, my wife does a thing with mustard and honey and fines herbes in an oil and vinegar salad dressing that gives rabbit food more appeal than it already has with its crunch ... but each to his own.
When you leave the meat you open yourself up to huge adventure in feeding, it is quite the opposite of a sacrifice ... living with a bean-sprouter in the 70s was an interesting experience for me, i spent over four years without any red meat, much longer than the relationship, lol ... and much of that time doing an intensively physical job, at which i had more stamina than before ... fair bit of seafood though, can't imagine life without it [and not that chemical "farmed salmon" either - the real thing or not at all].
Somebody upthread makes a good point - look at the diet of the healthy third-world poor ... they must be doing something right .... our staple here is the tortilla, made simply from ground maize and water and cooked lightly without fats of any kind ... the masa we buy here in BC says it's made in California [Alta, i.e. US], called Maseca ... much better than Masa Mixta in our opinions ... we pay about 18US per 22kg bag ... the action of making tortillas i find a pleasant routine chore, though i am careful not to do it around my old-school macho male peer group -g- ... can't get the texture and structure quite as right as the Tiny Perfect Woman can, anyway.
Wet the tortilla with something and you have a taco ... bean paste with ranch cheese and fresh salsa mexicana, pretty hard to beat that ... proteins in beans, cheese, rice, and squash complement each other ... the mexica and the maya used to grow maize/beans/squash together in hills, the beans would climb the maize stalks and the squash spread out from the hills, and combined they are good staple food.
Yes, beer is a food ... more, it is a food group ... ditto chiles and lime juice ... these three go with anything
Right around the time with that bean-sprouter [do try sprouting beans! - it's easy and cheap and great food], i developed a tendency to garden, probably connected ... grow your own if and when you can, the activity has more rewards than just good eating ... ¡Buen apetito! |
