Accidentally vegan

Tonight's Sunday night dinner was something of a bean convention. Our dueling main dishes were a "Bevy of Beans" and ginger garlic green beans. Our third dish was a cranberry spinach salad, which was also quite good. It's hard to call any of the dishes our "main course" tonight; instead we had a group of three dishes, all using some similar ingredients, that produced our first B&H vegan meal.

Mmm. There's the ginger garlic green beans, topped with a bit of an Asian-inspiried sauce that included soy sauce, Asian sesame oil, rice vinegar and sesame seeds.

The "bevy of beans" dish (below) was a mix of fresh fava and green beans (from Iovine's at RTM) done up with chopped basil, garlic, lemon zest and finished with lemon juice. Quite a nice combination, and more in a Mediterranean style. I credit Jeff's creative direction in selecting two bean dishes that shared a few ingredients but yet took on entirely different flavors and textures.

Jeff also put together a cranberry spinach salad with toasted almonds and sesame seeds (picture below). For me, the salad was the winning dish of the night. I enjoyed the sweetness of the vinaigrette dressing, but Jeff felt it was a bit much.

Overall, it was another quality dinner, and we were vegan for the evening without even trying. Nice simple, cheap but fresh and wholesome ingredients tonight. We made enough that we'll each get another meal of leftovers out of it, which definitely helps keep our costs down, as you'll see in the breakdown below.

Let's see how it shakes out on the money side (money per person is amount spent for what we actually ate tonight):

Ginger Garlic Green Beans: $0.80 per person (seriously!)

Bevy of Beans: $0.98 per person (again, seriously)

Cranberry Spinach Salad: $1.18 per person

Total per person for this meal: $2.96

A new record for Broke and Hungry!