Keeping it going!
Well, more like a cross between Lentil Soup and the Split Pea Soup further down the page, since the store only had "heritage" lentils — which were $6 for a few cups...which felt a bit too "Jack and the magic beans"...or Emperor's New Clothes...or some other story in that vein.... The split peas were 1/3 of the price. So it's the lentil soup, with split peas...and without bacon or pancetta.
I wish I'd seen the recipe adaptation "Lentil Soup with Greens," which is merely putting a bunch of spinach or kale in the pot. ....In retrospect, that seems obvious .
I also wish I'd noticed that the recipe makes 10 cups of soup. ...In retrospect, I could have made a half batch. That's a lot of Lentil Split Pea Soup.
Curious about how my cleaning went?
....I did some laundry and dug out the Joy of Cooking from one of the book boxes. I moved furniture to see if I could improve things — (verdict is still out...but the change and related cognitive jog is probably a little good for warding off Alzheimer's). I also made a great list of all the things to do before Beth arrives on Friday. It's a really good list. I felt accomplished enough. Way to go Joy of Cooking!
While the soup is simmering, I'll be washing a set of sheets (washing sheets wears me out — so I have a backlog of about four sets), and cleaning my coffee pot with Bon Ami, and changing the vacuum cleaner bag (so that I use it tomorrow night). Working through the list!
At the rate this metric ton of soup is cooking, I might get through lots more list-items than that before sitting down to dinner.
3 comments:
What a nice surprise to see this pop up in my feed reader! Now I want lentil soup. Whenever I make a way-too-big vat of soup, I throw at least half of it in the freezer for a future night of desperation.
Yes! Freezer. I did that with some lentil soup last week and it's already gone. I think it's something about the way I think and delay gratification until it's no longer gratifying, but up until this past summer I placed food in the freezer with the idea that it had to stay there a long time in order to come in handy when I really needed it. Of course, it would wait around getting freezer burned until I got so sick of the sight of it when I'd go for ice cubes for my seltzer that I often ended up throwing frozen food away - feeling a strange guilt.
Recently, though, I have been using the freezer for short term storage. Like a revolving door. Fewer leftovers go to waste, and I have a quick-- good-- dinner when I run out of time to crack open the old Joy. It may be that I have a microwave for the first time so I can defrost things quickly. Maybe I just figured out what most people have always known what a freezer is for.
Kellie — it made my day that you still use your feed reader and that this is still included in it AND that you commented!
T & K — freeze it I did, thanks to your advice. A bowl's worth is simmering on the stove as I type.
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