I served a Tex-Mex rice bowl for dinner last night - rice, beans, lots of vegetables and some good spices. I thought it tasted pretty good, but no one one said anything while they ate.
"What do you think?" I asked.
"It's okay," my daughter answered. "It needs something."
"It's fine," my husband said. "It just seems like a side dish; like it should be on the plate with some chicken."
Sarah got excited. "Yeah, this needs some chicken. And lime juice."
I have been making a lot of "bowl" food lately - soups, stews, casseroles. Part of it is the weather (so cold!) but part of it is my lack of creativity. I don't know how to put together a full plate that will resemble the meat-starch-vegetable plates that we know so well. I have been hitting the cookbooks and websites, but fake meatballs just don't interest me.
In the meantime, we are having soup tonight. I am adding fancy grilled cheese sandwiches so we can use some plates.
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