Brown Rice

For six months while Aaron was on deployment, I ate brown rice with lima beans almost every night. The secret is to cook it in vegetable broth--it tastes better and it's more filling.

Now I subsist mostly on things other people cook, or things I can microwave, but on days when I don't mind doing a little work for my food I'll still whip up a batch. For Christmas the in-laws sent us six giant canisters of textured vegetable protein, and now one package of rice and one can of lima beans plus half a cup of TVP makes about four bowls. Each batch costs maybe a dollar. Yum.