So as an effort to save money (and maybe be healthier), Darrell and I made the decision to eat meatless one night a week. We made it two weeks before something went way wrong with our plans. The first week we played it safe and made a pasta dish that we've had before (posted here with chicken omitted). This week we decided to make burritos using beans instead of meat. Seemed pretty straightforward. We even bought the beans dried instead of can because they were cheaper and we had time to soak them overnight and whatnot. Now, mind you, neither of us have ever cooked with dried beans before, so we were totally reliant on the directions on the bag. Which, we found out later, sucked. We soaked our beans, we rinsed our beans, we cooked our beans--for AN HOUR longer than it said it would take. And they still weren't very soft. But at that point we were so hungry that we didn't care. And because the beans took so long, the other elements of our burrito were sketchy as well. We tried making a queso sauce like the one at Qdoba, and it came out alright at first, but then as we had to keep it warm while waiting for the beans to finish it started to get really thick. So we added some milk to thin it out, which gave it this weird grainy texture. Major boo. We also made some cilantro lime rice, but it got weirdly mushy and not fluffy at all (which, truthfully, I'm not sure if it was from the addition of the lime juice or the sitting out on the stove, but whatever). When it was all said and done it wasn't inedible by any means, and for a vegetarian meal I was pleasantly full... But we both thought that it had such great potential that we were disappointed by the outcome. This will be one we'll have to try again--once we've mastered those darn dried beans.
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