Weekend links: lentils and more
Good reads around the web
- Frugal Superfoods - Great list of cheap, nutritious foods with tips on how to use them. I really need to get on board with lentils. We sprout them, but I've never tried cooking with them. What's your favorite lentil recipe?
- The $100 a Day Rule - Why didn't I think of this? [facepalm]
- 10 Things You Should Never Pay Full Price For - I'll freely admit that he had me at #1 (Books) but I totally agree with the other 9 items too.
- 5 Best Money-Saving, Healthy, Homemade Salad Dressings - We've very nearly broken the habit of store-bought salad dressing. Apparently we're not the only ones.
- 10 Financial Perks of Marriage - #10 is #1 on my list.
- 30 Uses for the Humble Cardboard Box - Really? There are entire books about crafting furniture chic out of cardboard?
- 19 Common Edible Plants - It's true. We have many of these right around our yard, and you probably do too. How much will they help with the grocery budget? Probably not much, but wouldn't you love to see the looks on their faces when you chomp into a cattail like corn on the cob?
- Homemade Gift Series #5: Wine Jelly — In light of our current budget cuts and my new obsession with canning, this sounds like the perfect gift for several people on my list.
5 Responses to “Weekend links: lentils and more”
October 23rd, 2010 at 7:52 pm
More With Less Cookbook has some great Lentil Recipes!! My favorite is Lentil Barley Stew. They are delicious even just baked with any seasoning you’d use for beans, some diced carrots, onions, celery and potatoes are a nice compliment!
October 24th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Favourite thing to do with lentils? I sprout them in a jar–takes only a couple of days and they’re good in salad. You can make a big pot of lentil soup in the pressure cooker in about ten minutes (I posted that on my blog awhile back). There’s the Hillbilly Housewife’s now-classic rice-lentil tortilla stuffing. But I most often add them in small amounts to vegetable soups or a pot of rice–I don’t get as many “NOOOO, NOT LENTILS” reactions that way.
October 25th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
We like “Lentil and Linguine” soup. After rinsing a 16 oz. package of lentils, we put them in a pot on the stove with some sliced carrots and several chopped cloves of garlic, cover with about 3″ of water and cook for 45 minutes or so. Now add an 8 oz can of tomato sauce and bring to a gentle boil. Add several hand fulls of uncooked broken spaghetti and cook until soft. The best part is after the soup is in your bowl, add lots of Parmesan cheese!
October 25th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Mama Squirrel,
I love sprouted lentils and several of my children do too – that’s the only thing I’ve used them for in recent memory. They taste a lot like raw green beans. Yum!
November 12th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
The all-time best lentil recipe is “Honey-Baked Lentils.” Here’s a link to the recipe:
http://texanrose.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-favorite-recipe.html
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