Wednesday, January 1, 2025

I Don't Know If This Hotdish Is Gonna Turn Out Well

This time around I limited the ingredients (not including salt, pepper and paprika) to eight: Black beans, blackeyed peas, diced tomatoes, white rice, a can of cream of chicken (heart healthy, according to Campbell's), the last half of the box of mostaccioli (the first half of which I used a week ago, on Christmas, for pasta), ground beef, and cheese, some of which has been in the fridge for a long time.  Moreover, the can of tomatoes had a use-by date of August 28, 2023, the can of black beans had a use-by date of January 26, 2020, and the can of blackeyed peas has a use-by date of I can't decipher.

I just got it out of the oven, just right now.  It's not the most aesthetically-pleasing hotdish, tbh.  I also am aware that with only tomatoes as a vegetable, this is a carbo load if there ever was one.  Finally, I don't remember the rice being reduced to mush like it was when I mixed all the ingredients before putting it onto the casserole dish.  I thought the last time it looked fine, but maybe I'm misremembering.  Also, the leftover cheese was left over long enough that it began to stink, and the stinkiness is still there on the hotdish, so there's a second sense this hotdish offends.

Supposed to let it cool for ten minutes before diving in.  Hope to Buddha that the taste isn't the third sense to offend.

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