{"id":1679,"date":"2009-08-07T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:25:49","slug":"cold-chili-glop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/08\/07\/cold-chili-glop\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold chili glop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows that I can cook, but think it a waste of time. I am, however, perfectly willing to mix things up and assemble food. In fact, if I can put my major source of dinner in one bowl [e.g., bowl of pasta with veggies, bowl of salad, bowl of soup], I consider in a triumph. These tendencies inspire my <strong>cold chili glop,<\/strong> detailed below. <!--more Blah blah blah I like food blah blah.--><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite foods is <strong>nachos with cheese, salsa and sour cream.<\/strong> Relatively easy, although they do require cooking to melt the cheese. Besides, they provide more fats than protein, especially from the sour cream. <\/p>\n<p>To improve nachos, I use <strong>lowfat plain yogurt,<\/strong> rather than sour cream. The yogurt tastes better and, as a bonus, I can eat the extra for breakfast. So right there we have protein with less fat.<\/p>\n<p>Still no complementary amino acids, though. To that end, I use <strong>canned black beans<\/strong> [rinsed, of course], which add protein, essential amino acids and fiber, not to mention yumminess.<\/p>\n<p>About this point, I get really lazy and don&#8217;t feel like either cooking or grating cheese. I end up mixing <strong>salsa, yogurt, pre-grated cheese and beans<\/strong> in one container to make <strong>cold bean dip glop<\/strong>. Sometimes I crush the chips and mix them in to make cold nacho bean glop.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I realized that, with minimal cooking, I could throw a bunch of ingredients together and get a <strong>cold chili glop<\/strong> for lunches!<\/p>\n<p>16 oz. <strong>lowfat plain yogurt<\/strong> + 16 oz. <strong>mild salsa<\/strong> + 1 can <strong>black beans [rinsed]<\/strong> + 2 cups <strong>brown rice<\/strong> [1 cup uncooked] = <strong>cold chili glop! <\/strong>Tortilla chips optional!<br \/><strong><br \/>Protein, fiber, <\/strong>a nice amount of <strong>fat, dairy<\/strong>, relatively <strong>low sugars,<\/strong> <strong>veggies <\/strong>and lots of<strong> fiber,<\/strong> all in one big Tupperware container. Cheap too!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The only problem is that I have basmati rice, which takes about 40 minutes to cook, which is about 40 minutes too long for me. There has to be a brown rice that takes half that time or less to cook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows that I can cook, but think it a waste of time. I am, however, perfectly willing to mix things up and assemble food. In fact, if I can put my major source of dinner in one bowl [e.g., bowl of pasta with veggies, bowl of salad, bowl of soup], I&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/08\/07\/cold-chili-glop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cold chili glop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[631],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}