Thursday, October 15, 2009
Rumblings and stirringsCategories: Life in progress Home Economics
Im all by myself again this week, and not really inclined to do much cooking, but two websites provided inspiration for this week’s menu.
From 101 Cookbooks I got an amazing lentil soup recipe, the Lively Yourself Up Lentil Soup. I have to admit, I was not really expecting much from this soup, I have never been a big lentil fan, but have been getting into dahl more and more lately. But I have so much study to do, and little motivation to cook, and I thought I would juve this one a try. I have to say it was much much better than I thoguht it would be. I made a mistake with the quantity of tomatoes and only put one can in when there should have been two, so it came out a little bland. I added some chicken stock to boost the flavour and it sudeenly got a lot better. But the saffron yoghurt!!! OMG!!! And OMG again!!! It turned the soup into a whole new creation, so delicious! I also tried the fried butternut cubes, as well as the yoghurt, and that was amazing too. I have some chive yoghurt ready to go into the next batch I unfreeze (tonight) and will probably do some more Cauliflower Popcorn to go in there as well. I now understand how a person could eat this several times a week. The yoghurt is very necessary tho.
The other website that provided some food inspiration was the Pioneer Woman. I had some pork medallions and wasnt sure what to do with them. I adapted this recipie for pan-fried pork chops and served it with more fried butternut cubes together with some Cauliflower Popcorn from 101 Cookbooks again. I also chucked some little cubes of potato in there with the cauli and that worked well.
Yum. Im hungry all over again now!
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