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themadvix wrote: »

Lentils and onions sounds good - they go all smushy and delicious when they've gone cold (Not that they're not delicious hot, just love 'em cold too)

Sounds tasty. I'm not vegetarian and have never tried that combo (not that you need to be vegetarian to eat it :rotfl:) but might try it. How would you cook it?

themadvix

Hope you don't mind me jumping in KC, but I love my daal recipe:

1 cup green lentils, rinsed
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1" piece ginger, chopped
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp (never measured!) salt

Fry onion until softened, add garlic, lentils, ginger, salt and turmeric and mix. Add 4 cups water/veg stock and simmer until water absorbed and lentils soft. Serve with rice and if you're feeling extravagant, an omelette! Proper peasant food, but so tasty we could eat it every day here. Goes well cold on toast the next day too.

themadvix

Take it slowly today KC - you've got all day to get there and it's important not to overdo it - remember those tickets are non-refundable!

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themadvix wrote: »

Hope you don't mind me jumping in KC, but I love my daal recipe:

1 cup green lentils, rinsed
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1" piece ginger, chopped
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp (never measured!) salt

Fry onion until softened, add garlic, lentils, ginger, salt and turmeric and mix. Add 4 cups water/veg stock and simmer until water absorbed and lentils soft. Serve with rice and if you're feeling extravagant, an omelette! Proper peasant food, but so tasty we could eat it every day here. Goes well cold on toast the next day too.

Sounds absolutely scrummy:j. I love versatile food. Thanks so much for taking the trouble to post the recipe:T. I like all the ingredients in it and will definitely be making some. Do they have to be green lentils? I already have some red ones plus all the other ingredients and could make some today.

OH is away for a few days. Long story, he went on Monday morning only intending to spend one night away but won't now be home until tomorrow night. I've been cooking and eating all my own favourites whilst he's been away such as pasta which he hates. I don't think your daal recipe would get his thumbs up either but it would mine:j. It could be tonight's dinner sorted:)

Karmacat

Thanks madvix! For the recipe and for the note to not do too much. I don't have a recipe and even for spices, I just throw in what I've got that vaguely goes together - oregano goes with mixed herbs, cumin and turmeric go together, that sort of thing. Beans go with things that have similar cooking times.


CBC - cooking times, red lentils cook a little more quickly than green, thats all. Check and see, because honestly, I have no numbers in my head on that :o:o enjoy your favourite meals!


As for not doing too much, this is what I'm doing *right* now:
- typing on here

- my phone is ringing up SB points
- my washing machine is on its 2nd go of the morning
- frozen veg and defrosting in yesterday's pasta water on the hob, ready to heat up a bit later.
- I'm half-watching a documentary about the Met Office


Mechanisation is a wonderful thing Seriously, though, I was out a *long* time yesterday (and my friend was recovering from a cold, which she didn't tell me till I got there ) so I'm going to be really careful, thank you.

themadvix

Never tried it with red CBC, but I'm sure it would still be tasty. We use red for bolognese - just to differentiate the flavours a bit, but no reason why it wouldn't work! (It might need less liquid? Perhaps add a bit at a time until lentils are soft, rather than chucking it all in at the beginning.) Enjoy!

Ooh, thanks KC, you've reminded I need to put washing on!

Take care - not cool about the friend's cold!

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Fingers crossed you avoid the cold, KC. I've found that everywhere I go at the moment there's always someone coughing and sneezing:eek:. Hard for any of us to avoid contact with cold germs unless we become hermits. Standing in queues seems to be worst, I always get a sneezer standing right behind me:mad:


Thanks for the further culinary advice, KC:T. Your style of cooking is like mine, not following recipes and just using whatever vaguely looks as if it might be suitable. When OH says he's really enjoyed a meal that I know I've made up as I've gone along and then says he would love to have it again soon I have to laugh. I know I wouldn't be able to replicate it exactly however hard I tried:eek:. Every dish is different at our house:rotfl:


Will be trying your recipe with my red lentils tonight, definitely, themadvix:j. Will take your advice about the liquid:T

beanielou

Hope you dont get the cold Karmcat.
SAfe travels xx

greent

Fingers crossed from me also that you avoid the cold germs, Kc x

Another non-follower of recipes here - the only things I really weigh ingredients for are bread and cakes, and even then I'm not exact with my measurements.

Recipes are to be used as inspiration for our own tastes/ preferences/ items we have hanging around!

Karmacat

Thank you lovely people

Today's gone well, I've been doing the things I need to do, but still had plenty of time to rest. Something I'd forgotten about online estate agents *and* conveyancers combined - figuring out the physical exchange of the keys! So I'm staying behind at the old house to hand the keys over to the buyer, and going to the new house by train, after the others have driven there. I'm officially an essential part of the process, not a passenger :rotfl:

That's if completion happens on Friday, as exchange is happening, um, tomorrow _pale_ Still, my normal lunch-for-a-train is made, my lentil mix is made too, and all the dishes went straight in the dishwasher :rotfl:

Hope everyone has a good week, see you on the other side