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[gloebug]

Project Eat Out Less has begun. Mostly for financial reasons though I'm telling myself it's for health. This weekend that meant "don't go to Pumpkin but instead stay home and eat pot pie (homemade, delicious, used way more mushrooms than I would have guessed) and then on Sunday go to brunch and then go home and eat bacon for dinner. Not so

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[knile]

I've become a big fan of fried rice when feeling cheap: rice, soy sauce, peanut butter, egg, peanuts, vegetable oil, garlic, whatever.

Also, throw some spices into your lentils! Surely you've got some lying around.

I keep meaning to use onions in both of these things. Other new fun/weird thing: reconstituted chickpeas (a bag recovered from a friend leaving town) which take waaaaaaay too long to rehydrate.

Helpful threads I've found on AskMetaFilter: What to do with rice and Big and cheap cooking.

[gloebug]

mmmmm I do like reconstituted chickpeas. If you put them in soup as dry little chickpeas they get very flavorful by the time the soup is done.

I have a good recipe for curried lentils (that can be a side dish with a fork or watered / broth-ed down for soup). Any other suggestions for spice combos you like?

The Big & Cheap cooking site looks like a great place to kill some time / plan some meals. Perhaps I'll do that tonight while watching Heroes. Because no matter how much I want to I can't do academic stuff while watching tv with commercials... :)

[knile]

Ooh souping them. Intriguing.

re: Spice combos, you can't really go wrong with turmeric, cayenne, cumin, black pepper, and/or red pepper flakes. I've also come to realize of late that I need to learn more about the different kinds of lentils! Eek!

Keep me/us posted on the Project. I'm looking at another lean month.

[my_sihaya]

I'm a fan of red lentils. The other ones, not so much. But I am trying to be better, because I feel like a bad vegetarian for not liking lentils. I made a red lentil pate last week, but it was not as spectacular as I had hoped it would be. Sigh