Rubbed w/dry spices, browned in olive oil, made a chunky relish from leftover gazpacho fixins’ (tomatoes, strawberries & green peppers), topped w/baby kale & vegenaise on grocery store baguettes. Tasty.
Sometimes photos don’t tell the whole story. My buddy (food lover & backyard farmer) was going on about Tapia Bros corn. I quote “blows away everything I have had since southern Jersey farmstands. Its even better.” I bought some to test his enthusiasm for myself. Boiled them for just a few minutes with no tricks (no sugar added to the water), finished w/a few pads of unsalted butter, just a sprinkling of crunchy salt & course black pepper. Okay, idk anything about southern jersey farmstands, but this might be the best corn I’ve ever had. Biting into them the sweet, corn juice popped and squirted all over our faces. Impossibly fresh, sweet, crunchy, corn goodness. Gotta’ get more… more corn dishes to follow…
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OK, the cooking bit of dinner is a mixed lentil affair that we’ve done for donkeys ages. I usually make a double quantity and freeze half. Onion and garlic is softenened, green or brown lentils go in along with veggie bouillon. It cooks for a while, then red lentils go in. A little while before it’s ready, skinned and chopped tomatoes go - just to heat through and release juice to moisten it all.
We’re having that with a coil of Cumberland sausage. And a big dollop of English mustard of course
Stir fry chicken breast marinaded in mixture of black beans and garlic sauce, spicy chili crisp and usual sesame oil, mirin and rice wine. stir fry with garlic ( no onions but too sick with flu to go to store so just using up whatever is in home) , ginger and spring onions, then scooped out of wok, added vegetables from garden except snow peas served with rice.
Dinner Tuesday evening was at our favorite casual place in town. DH took pictures of the view and our food, but they didn’t turn out well. We shared a cup of clam chowder, and a side salad with bleu cheese.
I had halibut and chips, but subbed onion rings. DH had a Reuben sandwich and fries. Both entrees were delicious. Wine and a drink for me, water for him.
Last night it was ground turkey burritos with black beans, avocado and all the accoutrements. Hit the spot!
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Here you go:
2 onions
2 garlic cloves, crushed
3 bay leaves
0.5 tsp dried thyme (or more fresh
225g green lentils
225g red lentils
Chicken or veggie stock (about 750ml)
3 tomatoes
Parsley.
As mentioned, fry the onion and garlic. Add the bay, thyme, stock and green lentils. Simmer for 15 minutes. Add the red lentils and simmer for another 10. Check that everything is pretty much tender and then add the chopped tomatoes and parsley.
The original recipe had this as a veggie main course, to eat with crusty bread. I think we tried that once but thought it better as an accompaniment. Sausages, as tonight, go great with it. As might anything porky.
Impossibly fresh, sweet, crunchy, corn goodness. Gotta’ get more… more corn dishes to follow…
Must get on that. Feel better!
IIRC it was more about recurring requests for the same recipes.
