1. 09 September 2010 · 12:25 PM ·
    So I made lentils the other night, which my mother absolutely refused to eat of course. I got the recipe out of this HUGE vegetarian cookbook I found in the bowels of our recipe cabinet. Which is surprising enough since my parents think that me becoming veggie is ruining their lives so I don’t really know why they had a vegetarian cookbook. That is besides the point though. Anyway, the lentils. Now generally I love lentils. They are good and filling and full of protein. However, these ones took forever to cook! I swear it said that it would take 40 mins total for them to cook and I think I left them on the stove for a good hour and a half. Not to mention that I didn’t read the recipe before I went to the store so I didn’t have everything I needed when I went to make them. Once I finally had everything in order, and finished cooking them (and what I mean here is that my family got tired of waiting for me so I stopped cooking even though they were still a bit tough) the lentils were pretty good. Secondly, the recipe made a huge batch so we definitely had leftovers. They were curried and tasted like Indian comfort food. Yummy.  I think that after this I will leave lentil cooking for cold wintery days on the weekend when there is not much to do…. But until then, I still have to finish all my leftovers!

    So I made lentils the other night, which my mother absolutely refused to eat of course. I got the recipe out of this HUGE vegetarian cookbook I found in the bowels of our recipe cabinet. Which is surprising enough since my parents think that me becoming veggie is ruining their lives so I don’t really know why they had a vegetarian cookbook. That is besides the point though.

    Anyway, the lentils. Now generally I love lentils. They are good and filling and full of protein. However, these ones took forever to cook! I swear it said that it would take 40 mins total for them to cook and I think I left them on the stove for a good hour and a half. Not to mention that I didn’t read the recipe before I went to the store so I didn’t have everything I needed when I went to make them.

    Once I finally had everything in order, and finished cooking them (and what I mean here is that my family got tired of waiting for me so I stopped cooking even though they were still a bit tough) the lentils were pretty good. Secondly, the recipe made a huge batch so we definitely had leftovers. They were curried and tasted like Indian comfort food. Yummy. 

    I think that after this I will leave lentil cooking for cold wintery days on the weekend when there is not much to do…. But until then, I still have to finish all my leftovers!