In an attempt to go wheat free as a family, I've been getting a little more creative in my cooking.  That usually scares my children, but at least one daughter was willing to try a new version of Enchiladas last night.  She said they were good, and I thought so too.

I used a combination of millet and lentils for the filling, with some sauteed onions, mushrooms and frozen corn.  I layered it all between corn tortillas, dumped lots of green enchilada sauce all over it and used liberal amounts of jack cheese, but if you took the cheese out of the mix it would be perfectly vegan.  Too bad it uses corn.  We're not going off corn yet.  One step at a time right?  I count it as a great success that we are abandoning wheat.  Corn is next.  But then I have no idea how we would make enchiladas without any tortillas at all... Maybe we should just make an "enchilada casserole" with the above ingredients minus the corn?  The point here is to make a meal with sufficient protein and flavor. 

I've been thinking that maybe what we can do is settle for being lacto ovo vegetarians.  Most of the time.  I don't think we should have to eat meat every day to be healthy.  I do think that there is great benefit to bone broth, which I have more than 20 quarts of in my freezer from the cow we butchered this year.  I like the idea of using the broth to cook my grains and legumes in, both for flavor and for nutrition.  And the meat from one cow should theoretically last us for a year.  We only got half a cow this time.  I would still prefer not to need animal products at all, but since that isn't where we are at philosophically or practically, I want to make the best use of what we have by eating less meat and stretching out what we have.  Incidentally, half our family is sensitive to milk, so we will probably have to let that go anyway.  I need to move us to almond milk, but first I need to find a good source of almonds so we can make our own regularly.