Food!

[lizziebennet]

I am on a quest to 1) eat out less, 2) eat healthily and 3) keep Orthodox fasts more or less properly (I'm not picky about oil right now).

So, pursuit of this quest, I decided I needed fasting food for lunch tomorrow at work. And I just made this. It is really really good. I am eating it instead of the beef/bean/barley stew leftovers, which I should

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[ceiling_taffi]

Yeah, red lentils are much closer to the yellow things than they are to the brown lentils-with-skins.

And no, I don't think I have cumin. I should perhaps check. But I haven't found bulk spices - maybe at wholefoods, but I don't generally go there (partially because the store is laid out in such a not-helpful-to-the-things-I-want-to-buy way and partially because it's in a separate shopping complex from where I usually go and partially because it has lovely things that are *EXPENSIVE* but are rarely what I'm supposed to be buying there).

I need to buy nutmeg, anyway (I finally worked through the last of my half-jar of short McCormick nutmeg - only took me five years to do...). Would the 99cent spices work for cumin? (there are some spices that are fine in a cheap variety and others that are... well... not so fine)

And your books look interesting. I understand the wanting to but trying to resist buying things just because they're in a different format. :-) I have favorite sizes/covers/illustrators/etc. for many books, but if one already has the book, one feels a bit bad about that.

Hooray for two weeks!

[lizziebennet]

I don't know about cheap spices for cumin. Normally I get bulk spices (from Fred Meyer's) but I am currently using a bottle of Trader Joe's cumin, which is fine, and was cheap, but probably not cheap quality as much as the Bartell's (or equivalent) spices. *shrug* I'm not normally a spice snob, so I'm of the opinion that it's worth giving it a try, though certainly some spices require the non-super-cheap variety.

Two weeks! Less than two weeks! Yay! :)