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RAW Cooking Show: Tuna Bean Egg Bowl
R. Alex Whitlock
A staple to a strong diet that's high in carbs and low in fat can be, of all things, refried beans. While refried beans can get tiresome, there are a number of things you can do to (quite literally) spice them up! Using cajun spices, green salsa, red salsa, and enchilada or taco sauce are great examples.
Today, we decided to make a mega-meal. A "mega-meal" in the RAW lexicon is a meal consisting of more than 700 calories. We discovered that if you drain out the water broth and put tuna in refried beans, you can easily add texture and low-fat meat. While we're not huge fans of tuna in general, when placed in the refried beans it actually tastes as much like chicken as anything else.
We then took it a step further and discovered that if you put an egg inside the tuna bean bowl and cook it thoroughly, you have tuna and refried beans that tastes like... well, tuna and refried beans.
Except with more cholesterol. And fat.
Oh well, maybe next time!
Observations
I think I'll go be sick now. Thanks.
Ditto.
: P
How did you come up with this recipe?
My best friend Micah used to come up with concoctions like that. Tom Hanna and I not-so-affectionately referred to it as glop. :) Thankfully, that was in college, when such experiments were supposed to take place (we were chem majors at the time).
BTW, go easy on those salsas and taco sauces -- those sorts of things can be very high glycemic index, which totally defeats what you're trying to do with "low carbs" (which is a misnomer, since you're really trying to cut down on high-glycemic-index carbs, not all carbs).
Well, Kevin, it depends on whether you're going for the kill-you-with-heart-trouble Atkins Diet or the stave-off-diabetes-and-be-healthy South Beach variety...
Adrianne & Callie,
Sorry to have troubled your stomach(s). Be cautious any time I'm doing my cooking show. It's cool of such concoctions.
Kevin,
On my most recent (and most successful) attempt at dieting, refried beans and milk were the staples. The problem with the beans is that it can get, well, monotonous. So I've been searching for other ingredients I can put in there. I prefer chicken to tuna, except that the latter is cheaper and Eel has more here than she knows what to do with. The eggs were put in on the philosophy that eggs make good "filler" provided (and this is important) that they're used in moderation (goodbye breakfast burritos). The glop consisted of one egg.
Thanks for the warning on the taco sauce. The low-carb diet is more Eel's thing than mine (I get it by proxy - she's doing most of the shopping). I'll write more about what I did last time and am going to try to do again soon in the near future. I'm not hip on all the "glycemic index" stuff, so I'm not sure what you mean by it, though. I did look at sugar intake and it's 4-6 grams per serving (my serving, which is about 2-3 of its servings). It's hard to get too excited about that considering how much sugar I'm unavoidably taking in with my skim milk consumption (60-96g per day for 5-8 servings, which is my norm). I know that there's "good sugar" and "bad sugar" (and from what I understand it runs a gamut more than either-or) and at present am uncertain as to how bad 6 grams of "really bad sugar" (which I assume the sauce has from what you say) and whether or not I'm just dooming myself anyway with the milk (depending on where that falls on the index, which I don't know as of yet).
One of these days I'll figure it all out.
Alex, dear gawd. GROSS. I never think there's anything good about being post-call and awake and working for 36 hours non-stop, but it evidently made me out of it enough to miss this cooking show, and for that I am grateful, that and the fact that you didn't make me eat it . . :)
Well, you can't win'em all!
I'll save some for you next time.
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