Sludge: salvaging a meal

[serenissima]

Not having LJ access at work has detrimentally affected my blogging. I wish I could send LJ posts by email.

I don't cook very often. It seldom seems like an appealing use of my time. My latest endeavour was about a week ago, maybe more. I didn't have much available at the time. I boiled some lentils with chopped potato and onion, seasoned with curry powder, black pepper and salt.

The result, as cooked lentils often do, looked like green-tinged mud, with pebbles (lumps of potato) strewn around in it. Plus, I overcompensated for my tendency to not include enough seasoning and ended up using too much salt and way too much black pepper for my taste. I tried eating it over rice. Still too peppery.

A few days ago, I tried sauteeing a tomato with minced garlic and some more onion. Then I put a portion of sludge in the pot over the tomatoes, with a little more water. The result was a thick lentil soup which, when served over rice, was pretty darn tasty, if still a little spicier than I prefer.

I still have a container of, shall we say, soup concentrate in my freezer. It's probably enough for two servings of the reconstituted stuff.

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[gregstoll.livejournal.com]

Paid, Permanent, and Plus users can post by email (so if you don't mind ads...)

If you're really interested I could see if I could get something set up on my computer...

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you for tipping me off. I already have a paid account.

[gregstoll.livejournal.com]

Great! (and I see your post by email!)