That recipe, in brief: Borrow 50 cents, mix ground beef and mix it with whole-grain, bulk cereal and "wilted or withered" vegetables. Add water. Boil; simmer for three hours.
"It it obvious to even the most optimistic that this Sludge, which should be like stiff, cold mush and a rather unpleasant murky brown-gray in color, is strictly for hunger," Fisher wrote.
Thankfully, we are not that hungry. Perhaps food prices will stabilize long before we are.
While planning, shopping and cooking these three meals, I encountered or recollected common-sense lessons, real but with metaphorical echoes.
Waste not, want not.
Recycle. Corncobs add wonderful flavor to stock. Pasta water thins and rounds out pasta sauces. The salsa from last night's takeout Mexican dinner will perk up today's pot of beans.
