Day 20, with purple refried beans

 

      Okay, okay, the beans weren't purple, they were black beans.  When mashed and blended for tacos, they took on a purple hue, sort of like paine's grey mixed with cobalt violet.  These beans made the most creatively colored meal we've had in a long time.  Weird, but lovely.

     Starting at the top, spanish rice, shredded lettuce, cheese, picante sauce, tortillas, and refried black beans.  We had enough refried beans for everybody to have more than twice this many beans.  There was leftover everything except the lettuce, with everybody too full to want the rest.

   

Here is Rodger dishing up some spanish rice and refried beans onto a tortilla.  Isn't that a pretty meal?

prepping the lettuce

corn tortilla flour

a ball of tortilla dough, about to get smooshed

the tortilla press lever being pushed down

tortillas being roasted on a dry griddle

potato bread just slashed and ready to slide into the oven

one poodle puppy in the midst of being transformed from mop-dog into her new poodle persona.

Here I am soaking in some sun while whacking most of the fuzz from the little Eppie dog. The clippers weren't working, so I used hair cutting shears.  Notice the pile of fluff on the lower step.  This pile became much larger as Eppie became more stylish.  The children washed our stinky old lover dog, Jackie, while it was shorts-and-short-sleeve weather. 

The day's food in review:

Breakfast menu:  cold cereal and milk, with leftover mashed potatoes for the twins

Cost:  $1.88

one box cold cereal:  1.00

half gallon milk:  .88

mashed potatoes, paid for yesterday

Lunch menu:  tacos and orange juice

Cost:  $4.05

(3/4 lb dried) refried black beans: .30!

oil for the beans:  .03

onion powder for the beans:  .06

shredded cheese:  1.00

homemade tortillas:  .80

3/4 head lettuce:  .70

1/2 gallon orange juice:  .99

1/2 tomato diced for Rodger:  .17

Snack:  none, everybody too full

Supper:  spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread and butter

Cost:  $4.09

tomato sauce:  .67

hamburger meat:  1.33

500 gr noodles:  1.08

 1 loaf fresh potato bread :  .45

10 pats butter:  .20

garlic powder for the bread:  .03

packet spaghetti sauce flavoring:  .33

Today's total cost:  $10.06