Recipe #1: rice and beans and cheez
Hello hungry readers! Welcome to my lowbrow recipe collection. Here you will find my favourite tasty treats—all of which are my own inventions, or highly modified versions of classics made with my own rubbishy spin. Let’s start with this fan favourite: beans and rice and processed cheez. I invented this dish when I was a young, poor university student. I was living away from my parents for the first time and rooming with my friends. This dish met the student criteria of cheap und gut. I thought it was such a weird and lowbrow and rubbishy dish that my housemates would leave it alone and it would be all mine. Unfortunately, they all tried it and loved it… as did their visiting friends and partners. One of my housemates urged me to up my game and stop using the cheapest processed cheez. She urged me to switch to a slightly higher-brow product: the gourmet “Ingersoll” processed cheez. I did use Ingersoll in this dish for years, and it was a game changer. Unfortunately, Ingersoll doesn’t