Tag: food

I cleaned a thing!

I’ve been trying to do better with taking healthy snacks to work with me, so I stay away from the vending machine. Today it’s a granny smith apple, mandarin orange sections, red grapes, and blueberries. I’ve had good luck with blueberries lately. Often they’re mealy and flavorless, but these are tart and crisp.

Crispy tofu, roasted cauliflower, and pardina lentils with brown rice.

1 cup masoor dal
1/2 tbls olive oil
1 large onion diced or 1 bunch scallions, sliced
4 large cloves garlic, minced
1 small piece ginger, peeled and minced
2 large carrots, sliced thick
4-5 ribs celery, sliced thick
5 roma tomatoes, diced (seeds and all)
1 bunch cilantro, washed and chopped, with stems
juice of 1 lime
2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp cayenne
6 cups water

Plus:
1/2 tbls olive oil
1 tbls black mustard seeds
1 tbls cumin seeds
2 cups fresh spinach, chopped

Set Instant Pot to sautee. Cook onion, garlic, ginger, and turmeric in olive oil until onion starts to soften. Add the rest of the ingredients and set Instant Pot to manual for 20 minutes. When done cooking, quick release.

Stir in chopped spinach.

In a frying pan on stove, heat 1/2 tbls oil on medium-high, then add black mustard seeds and cumin seeds and cook until mustard seeds start popping. Add seeds to dal and stir in.

These have become my favorite lentils.

I cooked them in the Instant Pot, then made veggie patties after mixing with rice, thinly sliced green onion and celery, grated carrot, garlic, and an egg. You could easily make it vegan by using flax “eggs” instead of chicken eggs. And you can use whatever veggies you like. That’s just what I had on hand.

They were super tasty!

Kroger gives zero effs for logical bag placement.

This with a scrambled egg and cheese makes a pretty decent breakfast.

I don’t think there’s a better way to test a new blender than to make hummus. It’s no Vitamix, but it’ll do!