| I've been working remote and living in a small apartment with limited
kitchen during the week. This week I invented an easy way to eat
healthy and cook with a minimum of tools.
First, I cooked up a pot of lentils with lots of carrots, some onion
and garlic and black pepper to flavor. Then I've used this as a base
for flavorful soup, cassarole, and lentil burger dinners. They all
tasted different enough I was not bored, and they are all based on
the lentils which are healthy and filling.
Soup: Add chopped tomato(fresh) and some tomato juice to the lentils
to thin them, then add chopped greens (spinach) and some
diced zuchinni, a dash or red pepper and some lemon juice to
brighten the flavor (add herbs to taste). Heat to cook
veggies and serve with whole wheat bread.
Cassarole: Add cooked brown rice, frozen or fresh geen peas,
steamed broccoli, and any herbs or
other veggies to lentils, place in shallow dish and
cover with a generous coating of shredded low-fat garlic
monterey jack cheese. bake in oven until hot and
bubbly. Serve with nice salad.
Burger: Mix cold lentils with oat bran, egg, chopped green onion,
more shredded carrot, some nuts (walnuts), seasonings
of choice to make a formable mass. Form into
patties, roll in bread crumbs, and chill for 30 minutes.
cook in a little olive oil until nicely browned on both
sides, serve on whole wheat bread with all the trimmings
used in hamburger (tomato, sprouts, light mayo, etc.)
With a minimum of equipment (like two pots and a couple of oven proof
dishes) I've managed to eat healthy for 4 days and entertain my taste
buds reasonably well.
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| > Any favorite vegetarian recipes? More and more people are eating
> less and less meat -- at least, the ones I have to eat with...
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SHOW KEY/ALL/FULL shows many, many entries under VEGETABLE. Maybe
something in there would take your fancy?
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