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tylikI really should be writing more about food. Especially since even though I've been sick and tired a lot, I've done some reasonable cooking.
Yesterday there were a bunch of reduced organic tomatoes and red bell peppers at the co-op, so I brought them home and made red-lentil yellow potato soup. Last night was particularly windy and kind of chill, so it seemed like a good soup night.
(Recipe: Brown an onion in a little olive oil. Add a bunch -- maybe a cup and a half? -- of dry red lentils, lightly brown them as well. Add 2-3 cups chopped tomatoes, and a few cups of water. Simmer until the lentils begin to soften. Add to this some fenugreek and Aleppo pepper, a chopped red bell pepper, a couple of chopped zucchini, a few stalks of celery, and four yellow finn potatoes (the latter two also chopped). Simmer until the potatoes are cooked and creamy (but not falling apart), add a bit of salt and you're done. See? Barely counts as a recipe.)
I noticed today that the spiced pumpkin butter I'd picked up had a rather jelly like consistency. So I added a spoonful of it to hot chocolate, in which it dissolved obligingly. This was a very good idea.
Also, the co-op has starting carrying Just Tomatoes' "Just Veggies". Which is to say crispy dehydrated vegetables. I used to buy these for backpacking (a lot of flavor for very little weight, and nutritionally useful, too.) But now I'm eating them as snack food. They are addictive. K and I are looking at splitting a six pound bag of them.
Yesterday there were a bunch of reduced organic tomatoes and red bell peppers at the co-op, so I brought them home and made red-lentil yellow potato soup. Last night was particularly windy and kind of chill, so it seemed like a good soup night.
(Recipe: Brown an onion in a little olive oil. Add a bunch -- maybe a cup and a half? -- of dry red lentils, lightly brown them as well. Add 2-3 cups chopped tomatoes, and a few cups of water. Simmer until the lentils begin to soften. Add to this some fenugreek and Aleppo pepper, a chopped red bell pepper, a couple of chopped zucchini, a few stalks of celery, and four yellow finn potatoes (the latter two also chopped). Simmer until the potatoes are cooked and creamy (but not falling apart), add a bit of salt and you're done. See? Barely counts as a recipe.)
I noticed today that the spiced pumpkin butter I'd picked up had a rather jelly like consistency. So I added a spoonful of it to hot chocolate, in which it dissolved obligingly. This was a very good idea.
Also, the co-op has starting carrying Just Tomatoes' "Just Veggies". Which is to say crispy dehydrated vegetables. I used to buy these for backpacking (a lot of flavor for very little weight, and nutritionally useful, too.) But now I'm eating them as snack food. They are addictive. K and I are looking at splitting a six pound bag of them.
