Refried Beans and Other Things

I don't know why, but I'm making refried beans.

Well, I kind of know why.  It's because I needed to get rid of two unsealed jars of kidney beans; however, why I chose to fry them I'm not sure.  At the moment, they taste rather...blah.

It's been a while since I've blogged.  A long while, actually.  It's tough to blog when you don't have a direction, but I think I have one now.

I'm going to become the ubiquitous food blogger.

I never planned, when I started blogging, to become a food blogger.  In fact, I wanted to be anything but.  Family!  Play!  All sorts of Fun Things!  However, apart from family, the only thing I do is FOOD.  Prepping and cooking are a huge part of my days.  Yesterday, for instance, I spent my entire afternoon and evening in the kitchen.  I made stew, canned beans, baked apple pie with Mr. Fantastic, and then did part of the clean up before I passed out around midnight.  It was a food day.

The impetus for change, though, was a discussion I had with The Man today.  I won't go into the details, but the result of the conversation was that we've decided to drastically change our household diet.  Fewer refined-carb-type-things, less red meat, more vegetables, no processed food if we can help it.  We're both tired of defaulting to things like Kraft Dinner or Mr. Noodles or chicken nuggets when we can't think of anything else or when we just don't have the energy.  Personally, I want to stop carb-loading and filling my tummy with, well, fillers.  I don't care about the clean eating or paleo or raw food diet fads.  We just want to eat real food.

Things aren't going to change overnight, I know, but any start is a good start.  Now I wish I had some catchy way to end this, but alas!  I have no ideas.