The Non-Refrigerator Diet

I’ve always known that yogurt is a wonderful thing, but I have recently started coming back to site with containers of unsweetened yogurt, as it stays good for at least 3 days. I can add it to pretty much whatever I eat, and it tastes better.

This recipe is adapted from one of Camille’s recipes in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. She used a blender to make a paste out of the green beans, but I left everything whole.

In the book Barbara Kingsolver documents her family’s quest to live on a family farm in Virginia, only eating locally grown food. I never made it past the first few chapters and the recipes scattered throughout the book. I have only heard good things about this book, so I was surprised that I was not feeling it. I blame my dissatisfaction with the book on the fact that I am currently eating extremely locally grown food all of the time, and it is easy and delicious; thus I don’t need to read about somebody else doing it. Of course one major difference is that the book takes place in a northern climate, where food cannot be grown year round.

Onion
Garlic
Tomato
Olive oil
Green beans
Spices – oregano, cumin, cilantro, salt, pepper
mustard
Egg
Avocado
Pasta
Unsweetened yogurt

1. Steam green beans and soft boil or hard boil the egg.
2. Saute onion, garlic with olive oil. Add tomato and spices, then add green beans and let simmer.
3. Chop the egg and avocado, and add to the green bean mixture.
4. Dump as much yogurt as you like into the vegetables and stir. Add a little mustard.
5. Serve on top of pasta. If you happen to dump half of the pasta on the dirt floor when draining the pasta, leave it for your dog.

I came up with a brilliant idea while I was eating this meal – the Non- Refrigerator diet. It is much harder to eat unhealthfully without refrigeration. Frozen pizza? Forget it. Twenty ounce bottle of soda? It’s warm, not even worth it. Late night munchies? I already gave away my leftovers to my neighbor or my dog. Of course several vices still remain – candy, chips, chocolate.

Nobody steal my idea! I might write a book about it and get rich at some point.