Comments | lizziebennet: Food!

lizziebennet

Food!

Sep 23, 2008 21:54

I am on a quest to 1) eat out less, 2) eat healthily and 3) keep Orthodox fasts more or less properly (I'm not picky about oil right now).

So, pursuit of this quest, I decided I needed fasting food for lunch tomorrow at work. And I just made this. It is really really good. I am eating it instead of the beef/bean/barley stew leftovers, which I should ( Read more... )

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happyduck1979 September 24 2008, 10:17:06 UTC

explain please. Orthodox fast? oil? lunch?

In my mind a fast is no food, no drink, no nothing.

lizziebennet September 24 2008, 15:13:17 UTC

Orthodox fasting is weird. :) We have full fasting, no food, drink, nothing. We do this on certain days (Good Friday, before we receive Communion any time, some during the first week of Lent ( ... )

ceiling_taffi September 24 2008, 17:17:53 UTC

Did you do the partial-blending thing on the soup, or just leave it as it was?

(I don't have red lentils, tumeric, a blender of any kind, or cumin, but I might someday...)

lizziebennet September 24 2008, 17:29:56 UTC

I did do it--I used a stick blender, and it made it a little smoother, though I left chunks of potatoes in it, because I like that sort of thing. I think you'd probably do just fine not blending it, though, if that wasn't an option.

It's seriously awesome soup. Mmmm. I think it might be a standard recipe, especially for fasts.

The red lentils are important, rather than regular ones, because of how they fall apart, but you probably know that. You could probably use those yellow pea things too? And you don't have cumin?? I am sure you will acquire some sometime! Can you buy bulk spices there? Do I need to bring you spices (in *two* weeks?!?)

ceiling_taffi September 25 2008, 00:22:01 UTC

Yeah, red lentils are much closer to the yellow things than they are to the brown lentils-with-skins ( ... )

lizziebennet September 26 2008, 08:32:03 UTC

I don't know about cheap spices for cumin. Normally I get bulk spices (from Fred Meyer's) but I am currently using a bottle of Trader Joe's cumin, which is fine, and was cheap, but probably not cheap quality as much as the Bartell's (or equivalent) spices. *shrug* I'm not normally a spice snob, so I'm of the opinion that it's worth giving it a try, though certainly some spices require the non-super-cheap variety.

Two weeks! Less than two weeks! Yay! :)

mimima September 24 2008, 17:46:27 UTC

Well, I must be ridiculously geeky, because they all look cool.

lizziebennet September 24 2008, 17:55:33 UTC

Fortunately, I think there’s a reasonable contingent of my friendslist who is sufficiently geeky to find that interesting! :) Of course, the other half probably doesn’t even know half the words in the titles, Orthodoxy is weird.

I am very liturgically inclined recently, in terms of geekiness. I need to read some more history and stuff.

mimima September 24 2008, 18:54:55 UTC

I read historical geekiness too :)

ioulios September 26 2008, 01:42:46 UTC

Oh, how it HURTS to read your shopping trip, since for some of us a tripe to such a bookstore is unattainable! ;-)

I'll get a copy of the Triodion Supplement as soon as I can; tried to get it for Lent this year but couldn't do it. The Order of Divine Services is on my list, but they're coming out with a revised and expended edition soon, so I'm waiting for that. This is THE book for Typikon reference in Churches of the Russian tradition without access to the Slavonic Typikon, and it is remarkably complete, even without the helpful appendices that the new edition will have.

I'm allergic to the HTM Psalter on strictly literary grounds, even if it comes in a cute, prayer book-sized edition; I'm saving my pennies to get this instead. And before I get the Jordanville Akathistarion vol. 2, I need to replace my copy of the vol. 1, which I lost to a treacherous leak some years ago.

Sigh. SO good to know there are other geeks in the world. ;-)

lizziebennet September 26 2008, 04:03:27 UTC

Indeed. We are fortunate to have a place where we can actually look at Orthodox books... LOTS of Orthodox books... in person. You should visit Seattle ( ... )

ioulios September 26 2008, 07:41:19 UTC

There is a wonderful and large Serbian Orthodox bookstore just south of Chicago that I visit at every available opportunity (which is about once a year). There used to be one near Detroit, not far from where I'm moving next week, but sadly it seems to have closed. It seems, then, that for the foreseeable future Chicago will be the closest, and that's six hours away! (The Rives Junction monastery is only an hour and fifteen minutes, but their selection of books, as I was surprised to find during my last visit there a couple of months ago, is very limited ( ... )

lizziebennet September 26 2008, 08:27:40 UTC

Is that at the Serbian monastery/seminary place I've heard tell of? I forget what it's called now. Interested that Rives Junction has not got many books--I also would have thought they'd have a big selection ( ... )

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