Peace and love and hippie bowls

The hippie bowl "recipe" was built up when my husband and I first started living together at 22 yrs old and, well, living in a cheap basement apartment across the hall from the cheap basement apartment my own parents first lived in in 1973.  We were trying to save for our first place. 

Since then, the hippie bowl has been at least a weekly occurrence in the dinner rotation and is a regular request.  The hippie bowl is never the same. 

It's roughly translated to:
1 c cooked rice, barley, or couscous
1 can of beans (whatever is on hand)
1 onion
chili powder, salt, & frank's red hot

(Optional)
chopped tomato or salsa
skillet roasted corn
shredded cheese
Avocado or guacamole

At its base, this meal will feed 2 people for about $2.  It's yummy, comforting, high in protein and fiber, and low in fat.  Obviously, I jazzed this one up a bit from our $2 version. The corn was blackened in my cast iron skillet with toasted creole seasonings.  The end result was a perfect blend of sweet and savory.