crockpot incident #2
i hope i'm not annoying anyone with my obscene amount of posting here. i just do a lot of cooking, almost all of it being new things i am just trying and am too enthused about sharing with the world! especially vegetarian foodies, like me. at work the other day i tried having a good food chat with some of my foodie friends there, but unfortunately they are all carnivores, and while i have an appreciation of the meat products from my former carnivore days, i just have nothing fun to contribute to the conversation when it turns to the wonders of sausage. and they don't care about my experiments with lentil stew. which is what i want to share with YOU! the foodies who appreciate the beauty of a lentil!the lentil is something i only discovered last summer when i was visiting my mom and reading through a bunch of new vegetarian cookbooks i had just purchased at the FABULOUS half-price bookstore near her house. at that moment i had never cooked lentils or made anything with curry in it, so i was intrigued by the recipe i found for curried lentils. we decided to make it together since my mother couldn't believe HER daughter had reached the age of 25 and never made anything containing curry or lentils. it was fun and i was delighted with how easy lentils are to prepare. yay for lentils!
but i digress into sentimental memories. nowadays i am always excited when my menu planning for the week includes a lentil dish because of my newfound fondness for the lentil. unlike dried beans, which i still struggle with sometimes, i never have issues with lentils. they are so very low maintenance.
anyway, yesterday was the second time i have used the new appliance: the crockpot. and i used it to make lentil stew. and once again it has held its own.
lentil stew:
i dumped a pound of lentils + 3 cups water, a big 28-oz can of diced tomatoes, tomato paste, 1/2 cup red wine, onion, celery, carrots, garlic, oregano, basil, and a little crushed red pepper into the crock pot and set it on GO! about ten hours later i had dinner.
and it tasted really good for lunch today reheated with a little leftover shredded gouda melted on top. the perfect food for the snow storm they keep telling us is coming.
we'll see about that.
posted by em @ 12:25 PM
2 Comments:
how many times did i use the word 'lentil' in this post?! geez... :)
I LOVE LENTILS!!!!! I have been eating a lot of them here because they are way low-maintenance, they taste good, and they have protein and iron (unlike, oh, every other egyptian food). Also, they're cheap.
We had plain cooked brown lentils just last night, in fact. Just two cups of water, a cup of lentils, and a bay leaf. cook. eat. yum!
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