Posted by amaryllis on 2006-08-15 10:15:29
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When I'm bored with lunches here is my standby:
An Everything Bagel (or any large bagel with sesame seeds, garlic, etc on it) toasted with spicy mustard.
Honey ham
pepper jack cheese
lettuce, tomato, black olives and banana peppers
I'll have that with celery and hummus or blue corn chips and salsa. You could sub the ham for roast beef or have just the cheese. Basically, a big toasted bagel makes a great sandwich as long as you add interesting ingredients. Pesto, cream cheese, hummus, canadian bacon...all of those would be good too (although probably not together) :)
When the weather gets cooler (it's hot as 1,000 hells here in TN), a big pot of veggie chili or lentil soup goes a long way for lunches. You could make corn muffins to go with. Let me know if you want recipes. I have bunches that are "tried and true".
Posted by Nancy Flynn on 2005-05-23 13:18:40
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this recipe is AWESOME:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/104464?epiSearchPage=http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/find/results?search=lentil+soup
It does involve curry, and it makes a TON of soup. Definitely give it a go if you like curry.
Posted by cathrinka on 2005-05-23 11:49:00
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i make a similar lentil soup at least once a month. i'd toss in some thick lemon slices while the soup is simmering and remove them when it is ready to serve. i'd also add a couple teaspoons of curry powder.
Posted by stella on 2005-05-22 17:06:44
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you could put some more spices in it. i think that sounds like it would be good with some curry powder. i make lentil soup now and then (sans chicken broth and zucchini, since i'm vegetarian and i hate zucchini) and i use basically the same stuff, just more herbs and spices. a bay leaf and some dried basil would be good if you're not into curry.
Posted by ad_ho on 2004-07-07 16:05:20
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Yay! Someone wants my lentil soup recipe! I feel like I am pushing lentils on an unsuspecting public, But since it was mentioned, I will share.
(I really really love this lentil soup and will be eating it tomorrow. :)
The real recipe for Curried Lentil soup: (my personal notes follow)
1 16 oz. (2 1/2 cups) package dry lentils, sorted and rinsed
8 cups water
2 carrots cut into 1/2 inch slices 2 celery stalks, cut into slices
1 medium onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
3 tsp- 2TBS curry powder (to taste)
2 extra-large vegetarian bouillon cubes, or 2 regular chicken flavor
1 tsp salt
2 bay leaves
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes, undrained
2 cups coarsely chopped fresh spinach
low fat plain yogurt or sour cream
1. In 3 1/2 or 4 quart slow cooker, (not a smaller one!) combine all ingredients except last 3. Mix well.
2. Cover and cook on low 8- 9 hours
3. 5 minutes before serving, add tomatoes. Cover and cook 5 more minutes.
4. Remove and discard bay leaves. Top individual bowls with half cup spinach and tablespoon yogurt.
I like to add way more carrots. I like the powdered bouillon. Too humid in TX for cubes and they just become bricks. I always use the jarred mined garlic- but I'm not a foodie. Curry powders differ widely- some are much more potent than others! I also add all teh spinach in the crockpot, but I like it wilted. Sour cream rocks. This is better the next day and freezes very well. I am not sure if the recipe can be halved for the smaller crock pots, but as is it will boil over.
Posted by lararum on 2006-02-22 14:43:07
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Our absolute fave lentil soup recipe-
cup of red lentils, chopped carrot, celery and onion, garlic to taste(we use lots, the original recipe calls for one clove), paprika, bay leaf and chili powder, 4 cups water. Cook until lentils are soft , add one cup leftover spaghetti sauce, simmer, add pepper to taste.
Its very easy, and really tasty. I've made it without the vegetables, when I didn't have any and it still came out good.
Posted by miightymiighty on 2006-02-14 06:42:57
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my boyfriend makes a very simple lentil soup, except he overcooks it to the point of being the thickness of pudding.
but it's super good, just super simple.
chunk up an onion, saute just a bit, add four cups (ish) of water and lentils that have been rinsed, boil for a while stiring often, then add a cup of rice and loads of pepper, once most of the water is sucked up by the rice, (low simmering btw) add a cup of milk ((soy milk works well in this even)) and stir again , let it sit for ten or so minutes.
Posted by elixirbeth on 2006-02-15 06:35:40
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my boyfriend makes a very simple lentil soup, except he overcooks it to the point of being the thickness of pudding.
but it's super good, just super simple.
chunk up an onion, saute just a bit, add four cups (ish) of water and lentils that have been rinsed, boil for a while stiring often, then add a cup of rice and loads of pepper, once most of the water is sucked up by the rice, (low simmering btw) add a cup of milk ((soy milk works well in this even)) and stir again , let it sit for ten or so minutes.
Posted by teagrrl on 2005-05-10 06:24:28
Post Subject: Making meals from...
From the "I'm chubby" thread:
What's a typical grocery shopping list for you and what meals would you make from it?
I thought about this particular question yesterday and I came up with a list of (vegetarian) things and several meals that could be made from them...strictly speaking they are not all part of my typical shopping list (can't eat yogurt, don't like canned tomatoes or mushrooms), but I put some things on the list because they're so versatile.
Shopping list (or things that you already have at home):
* rolled oats
* eggs
* at least three different kinds of fruit of your choice
* cherry tomatoes
* iceberg lettuce (or other lettuce that you like)
* fresh mushrooms
* frozen kale
* squash
* carrots
* one root vegetable of your choice
* red onions or leek (or both - depending on what you like)
* celery
* cauliflower
* canned chopped tomatoes
* fresh baby spinach leaves
* fresh ginger
* garlic
* spices that you like, including salt and pepper
* fresh herbs (parsley is probably the most versatile, but pick any that you like)
* veggie stock cubes
* lemon
* flour (whichever kind you like - though go easy on the white)
* olive oil
* yeast
* nuts and/or sunflower seeds
* sesame seeds
* red lentils
* dried or canned beans
* dried or canned chickpeas
* plain unsweetened yogurt (low-fat if available)
* whole grain pasta
* rice
* soy sauce
For breakfast you can have oatmeal, one boiled egg, at least one fruit.
Snacks: fruit and nuts, or fruit and roasted chickpeas or beans, or fruit and yogurt.
Meals you can make from this list:
Lentil soup: Red lentils, grated or diced carrot(s), grated or diced root vegetable(s), sliced celery stalk(s), chopped red onion or leek, garlic, veggie stock, spices of your choice (I've heard that cumin is nice). Optional: canned tomatoes, if you like that. Serve the soup with lemon wedges and bread.
Bread: flour, yeast, water, oil, salt. Throw in flaxseeds (not on the shopping list) and/or sunflower seeds and/or chopped nuts and/or spinach...or fresh herbs...anything you like. Put sesame seeds on top.
Bean salad: the "original" bean salad recipe that I love has canned beans, olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper, garlic, red onion and fresh cilantro/coriander leaves. But since lemon is on the shopping list you can use lemon juice instead of vinegar, and any fresh or dried herbs (or e.g. dried chili flakes) instead of cilantro. Serve the salad at room temperature with bread or salad or as a side dish, or heat it a little and serve with pasta.
Salad: fresh baby spinach, leek or red onion, cherry tomatoes, celery, iceberg lettuce, fresh mushrooms, sunflower seeds or nuts (dry roasted if you want to), fresh herbs. Either serve the aforementioned bean salad with this, or add cooked beans/chickpeas to the salad. If you absolutely can't eat salad without dressing you could make a spicy vinaigrette (with lemon juice if you don't have vinegar) or tzatziki (see below). Salad with fresh bread...mmm.
Kale soup: Frozen kale, cooked or canned beans, grated or sliced zucchini (squash), veggie stock, spices. Serve with bread.
Whole grain pasta with spinach and sunflower seeds or nuts (pour boiling water over the spinach leaves until they look wilted, then pour the water off). Serve with bean salad or cooked beans/lentils/chickpeas.
Pasta sauce: Canned tomatoes, squash, mushrooms, lentils, onion/leek, garlic, fresh herbs. Serve with whole grain pasta.
Hummus: Cooked chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper (blend to a smooth paste). This is not "real" hummus I guess but there are so many different recipes...some use fresh herbs. Spread the hummus on bread or eat as a dip with pieces of vegetables (such as carrots and cauliflower). You can also make felafel from it.
Cauliflower with ginger and garlic: fry pieces of cauliflower with garlic, fresh ginger and soy sauce, until the cauliflower is soft enough to eat. Serve with rice and felafel or a protein source of your choice... (Fresh ginger can be frozen, so you don't have to use the whole thing right away)
Tzatziki: strain the yogurt. Mix with grated squash, garlic, salt and pepper. Real tzatziki uses cucumber but I have used squash with the same results and it doesn't have to be strained like cucumber does. Serve the tzatziki with bread or as a vegetable dip, or as a cold sauce.
Sesame seeds can be used in pretty much any dish (sprinkled on top of eg a salad or mixed in hummus, etc)...they contain a lot of calcium and magnesium. You can make sesame seed milk, too.
Desserts: Fruit salad (you could flavour yogurt with vanilla and serve as a sauce for the fruit salad), a piece of good quality dark chocolate (not on the shopping list...).
All of these recipes are easy to make and most are quick. Usually when I make soup or salad or something I make several servings of it so I can eat it for several meals (though I try not to eat the same thing two meals in a row, cause it gets boring...). So I could easily live at least a week off these dishes.
It is a high fiber diet though so if you're not used to it it will take a while for your stomach to adjust. Make sure you drink plenty of water.
Now it's your turn, what healthy dishes would you make from the shopping list I made? Without adding any extra ingredients...
Posted by millipede on 2005-09-07 12:22:07
Post Subject: Best Sandwich (Vegetarian)
My boyfriend found the recipe to this sandwich on some message board. I wish I knew where so I could link it and give the proper credit. Anyway, this sandwich is so good and its vegetarian.
Makes two big sandwiches
Ingredients
- French bread, whole wheat or pita
- 2 to 3 Roma tomatoes - sliced or diced depending on whether you are using pita bread
- 1 good sized, ripe avocado - sliced
- Fresh spinach leaves to taste - washed and leaves removed from stems
- Dijon mustard
- Garlic-y hummus
- Salt, Pepper, etc. - to taste, optional
1. Spread hummum on one half of bread and dijon on the other half.
2. Layer tomatoes, spinach, and avocados.
3. Eat.
We've been obsessing over this sandwich for about a week now. I've eaten it three times in a single week. The first time we ate it with lentil soup.
Posted by alterego on 2005-10-27 19:40:49
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A - Act your age – 26
B - Breast size – 34C
C - Chore you hate – all of them. Except, ok, I kind of like washing dishes
D - Dad's name - larry
E - Essential make up item – lipliner for the eyes
F - Favorite singer – Paul Westerberg
G - Gold or silver - Umm, I'm not particularly devoted to either.
H - Hometown – Milledgeville, GA
I - Instruments you play – took piano lessons as a kid
J - Job title – production editor
K - Kids – Hope to have 1 or 2
L - Living arrangements – first floor of a three-family house, with my boyfriend and a cat.
M - Mom's name – Mary
N - Number of people you've slept with - Ten-ish
O - Overnight hospital stays – none
P - Phobia – oh so many, basically anything that can cause death.
Q - Quote you like – Either that wallpaper goes or I go--the dying words of Oscar Wilde
R - Religious affiliation – none
S - Siblings - one half-brother and one-stepbrother, although basically I'm an only child
T - Time you wake up – minutes before I'm supposed to be at work (8:30)
U - Underwear of choice - something that'll make my boyfriend happy and me comfortable
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat – I can't think of anything . . .
W - Worst habit – negativity, procrastination
X - X-rays you've had – teeth (and an MRI of my torso)
Y - Yummy food you make – lentil soup, iced horchata lattes, grits
Z - Zodiac Sign – Capricorn, but I don't put much stock in it.
Posted by malinka on 2004-12-01 22:45:38
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Sweet potato and red lentil soup
do the usual saute garlic and onion thing, add chopped sweet potato and red lentils, saute, add stock and a little chilli/herbs/smoked paprika, cook, whizz, yummmmmm
velevtey and yummy
my sister said this recipe made her do the worst farts. i've never had that problem with it, but i though i should give you fair warning!
Posted by mindshare on 2004-11-30 10:52:47
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any kind of lentil/bean soup is pretty easy after you've got the beans cooked (or of course you can use canned, but i think dried is cheaper). i never use a recipe for soup but that's what makes it so fun, i think... just throw whatever vegetables and beans you have in there, and then get crazy with the spices. for a black bean soup, i like corn, and celery, and some cumin and a little chili powder, maybe some lemon juice. a good curried lentil soup with cumin, coriander, tumeric is nice.
also super cheap is squash soup -- bake a squash, scoop out the good stuff, mash it up (either by hand or with a blender & some stock/water), then add spices, water/stock. a tiny bit of nutmeg is good in a squash soup. and always salt and pepper.
uh, as you can tell my cooking style is kind of unorganised..
Posted by sallysunshine on 2006-03-28 23:20:51
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I'm cooking for one, so I make chili and freeze single servings in ziplock bags. It also works with lentil soup. Lots of burrito recipes freeze well, too.
Posted by girlthursday on 2004-11-12 15:58:09
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I just tried this lentil soup recipe a coworker gave me and it's delcious. Soups are so great because you can get so many meals from just one big pot.
-1 tbsp olive oil
-1 onion chopped
-2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
-1 rib celery, sliced
-1 tsp cumin
-1 cup red lentils, rinsed
-1/2 cup basmati rice, rinsed
-4 cups (or more) vegetable stock (I'm not vegetarian so I used chicken broth)
-salt and pepper
Heat oil in large saucepan or dutch oven. Add onion, garlic. carrot and celery. Cook over low heat about 10 minutes until fragrant but not browned. Add cumin, stir well. Cook about 1 minute. Add lentils and rice; combine well. Add 4 cups stock and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer gently 20 -25 mins or until lentils and rice are very tender and soup is thick. Add salt and pepper to taste. Thin soup with additional stock or water if necessary. Enjoy!
Posted by Karen on 2004-05-28 11:48:10
Post Subject: Crock-Pot recipes without red meat?
Most of the recipes that came with the Crock-Pot I just bought have beef, and I don't eat red meat. What are some good vegan, vegetarian, poultry or fish recipes?
From the old Glitter thread: http://discuss.gromco.com/mwforum/topic_show.pl?id=39929. (I'd love the recipes for ad_ho's lentil soup and sweater's vegan stuff!)
researchasaurus's chicken soup
~8 cups broth, plus cut-up onions, carrots, celery, basil, etc., and leftover cut-up chicken. Cook on low all day. Add thick Amish-style egg noodles to the pot about 1-2 hours before dinner time. As long as you add the noodles toward the end it doesn't become a big pot of mush.
costumekitten's smothered chicken
Frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts with 2 cans of cheddar broccoli soup thrown over them. Eat it with rice or mashed potatoes. Yummy!
MlleEmily's falling-off-the-bone chicken curry
Put in the chicken pieces and pour over whatever ready-made Indian-style sauce is on special at the supermarket that week. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Use the sauce you usually add to the frying pan after you've browned your chicken. Because there is little or no evaporation the sauce stays sloppier, more like the way you get it at an Indian restaurant, and if you serve it up with rice or couscous the sauce runs into it better. We sometimes add a bit of onion that we have fried in a frypan at the beginning, and also sometimes slice up a courgette (zucchini?) or some bell peppers, and they get nice and soft too.
rita0373's garlic-roasted chicken
The first recipe I ever tried was http://www.thatsmyhome.com/slowcooker/garlic-chicken.htm. It's tried and true. I used a tablespoon or 2 of chopped garlic from the jar.
Posted by Nancy Flynn on 2005-03-04 17:19:13
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yeah sewpunk! red wine is the best with anything a person can cook (although i've heard there is some weird chemical reaction when you have it with turkey that makes it taste vile, but i don't like turkey)
sorry, hijack-- i am making this recipe for lentil soup on epicurious for dinner:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/104464
but only a 1/2 portion because it makes A LOT of soup. i think it is going to be a big cooking weekend for me, trying to get back on track with eating healthy...
Posted by teagrrl on 2005-05-09 12:03:33
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About eating healthy: I read an article where health was compared to a bank account. Healthy food choices, exercising and generally healthy choices (such as not smoking) are all deposits into the account. Unhealthy food, not exercising etc are withdrawals from the account. The idea is not to never make any withdrawals (because what's the point of a bank account if you never use the money?) but keeping the balance on the "plus" side. I thought it was a nice analogy.
Back to the original topic...
If I was grocery shopping for myself, I would get:
* an assortment of dried beans and lentils, and a couple of tins of beans/lentils for "emergencies". I'd soak and cook a lot of the dried beans and then freeze them in small portions. Of course, usually I already have this at home, because it lasts forever. :-)
* an assortment of what I call "real" vegetables, ie not only cucumber, lettuce etc which is mostly water, but more nutritious ones like spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, root vegetables...which veggies I'd get would depend on what was in season. I try to keep (good quality) frozen vegetables at home as well. You can make spinach or kale soup really quickly from frozen chopped spinach/kale.
* fruit - also depending on what's cheap and in season. Fruit and nuts are a great snack.
* nuts of any kind (if available - my local grocery store is really bad)
* sunflower seeds and sesame seeds - good to sprinkle on just about any foods
* soy milk, probably
* I don't eat yogurt, but if I did, it would be a low-fat, low-sugar kind. Yogurt is supposedly really good for you, but it gives me a headache and I'm not sure I should eat dairy at all, so...no thanks.
* flour of different kinds I usually keep at home. Yum, homemade bread...I love bread with sunflower seeds or flaxseeds or nuts in it...
* olive oil is also a staple
* lots of different spices or fresh herbs - prepackaged spice mixes (the ones in bags, intended for one meal) can be really good to keep in the house, to spice up any dish...
You can make a billion of different bean stews or salads or lentil soup or hummus or falafel...I think that as long as you have several spices that you like, you can make even the simplest dish really tasty. You might want to keep a couple of condiments (sweet chili sauce?) at home too if you like that. And fresh herbs in a pot in the windowsill.
***ETA:
Aaaah! How could I forget:
* whole grain pasta - I love pasta. Pasta with spinach is really good, as is pasta with guacamole (or plain avocado).
* rice
I'm such a carb girl normally, I can't believe I left them out! (Well, beans and lentils have carbs too, but you know...)
About the spices, my latest addiction is dried chili flakes. I put it in anything...I even made kale soup with chili flakes.
Posted by teagrrl on 2006-12-01 03:28:47
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How about soups? I don't have a microwave oven either so I eat a lot of soup - it's easy to reheat. :-) For example lentil soup, or a soup with beef chunks, fresh vegetables (leafy greens!) and rice noodles, or potato and leek soup. When I bring lunch to campus, it's usually sandwiches+vegetables, or some kind of bean or lentil salad that can be eaten cold (we do have access to microwave ovens in the campus lunchrooms, but I'm too lazy to wait in line).
Also, have you tried quinoa? It's gluten free and can be used instead of rice when you're fed up with rice...
You could also make a large batch of pizza (with gluten free crust of course) with all the different vegetables that you can eat. (I like cold pizza slices, but YMMV...)
A bunch of vegetables with guacamole, maybe? Though you'd need something protein-y as well with that...
***ETA: how could I forget meatballs? You can fry a big batch of them in the oven and they freeze well. They go with just about anything, too (depending on how they are spiced, of course) and can even be eaten cold as snacks or on a sandwich...yummy.
