this is planting outside

i ate too many ingredients.

a heavy cold rain has been battering my herbs. the parsley and basil are still bouncy but the coriander is in a slump.

Parsley and cilantro are both disgusting savages

i flagged that disgraceful post just in case the moderators missed it.

i make a pretty awesome lentil soup with cilantro, meyer lemon & cayenne pepper

smoove otm

lentils too imo

i love lentils and i would like to have that soup recipe if it's not a bother.

my variations from the recipe

instead of the yogurt i add meyer lemon
i often do half red lentils,half brown
instead of chopped onion, i do a whole shallot

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/health/nutrition/18recipehealth.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

oh yeah i skip the puree, totally unnecessary especially if you use red lentils

thanks, that looks really good.

; )

i am coming round to lentils

estela, what is the name of that lentil-cookbook woman you rec'd? is it andrea chessman? i couldn't find it on amazon.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/18/health/18recipehealth_600.jpg

poop soup

wood cook

Oops would cook. Ack

how much poop soup would a wood cook cook if a wood cook could cook poop soup?

ruby, this is the book i was telling you about. it doesn't look too exciting but i like it a lot.

http://www.amazon.com/Delicious-Ways-Cook-Beans-Grains/dp/0452276543/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1338621704&sr=8-7

ohhh i was spelling her name wrong!

i would like to see that book

if it plays its cards right it could become the official sandbox cookbook.

i'm going to make t.s's lentil soup this week. sadly without meyer lemon though because they're not available here. i wish they were. t.s, would regular lemon be a terrible letdown?

i tsked my tongue at lxy's tongue twister.

i wonder what kind of cards that cookbook is holding

does it know how to play bridge?

estela, plain ol' lemon will do just fine, there was a restaurant in nyc while i still lived there that introduced me to the magic of lemon added to lentil soup and i believe they just used your everyday lemon. meyer lemon has a very tangy & sweet orange-like flavor that really interacts with the cayenne in an ideal way but i can't always get meyer lemon so i make do and it still tastes awesome.

this was good http://www.publicradio.org/columns/splendid-table/recipes/soup_corianderlentil.html
there is a lemony lentil-spinach soup in claudia roden middle east book too

thanks xp, i'll use regular ones, but i do love meyer lemons and wish they sold them here.

that looks good too, harbl.

i hope that book can't play bridge because i can't and i think i never will.

when my sister and i were teenagers we went to stay with our excellent elderly aunts for a week and they taught us 500 and gin rummy and then made us go and play in a local gin rummy tournament in a freezing country hall with them (where an old man shouted 'my goodness those two girls laugh a lot' and someone pointed out to him that our aunts were known for this also and then he said he hadn't realised we were with them and that he wasn't complaining anyway just making an observation) and we didn't disgrace our aunts who had been a bit worried about how we'd go and then when our holiday was over they gave us a pack of cards for our long journey home (a train, a ferry and another train) and by the time we got to the ferry we were fuzzy on the rules again and we had a bitchy row about it so in the interests of harmony we threw the pack of cards over the railing into cook strait and we have never played again.

i ordered that cookbook and it came today!

i ordered that cookbook and it came today!

<3 you sound like a gilbert and sullivan chorus.

i drank a bit too much tonight but that whole bit about the cookbook and the cards and the repeats has revived me a little.

<3 you all so much.

+ lentils are A+

i was at the grocery store earlier and 'i ordered that cookbook and it came today!' x2 flashed into my mind and i laughed helplessly and a man frowned at me for being a loon.

this all made me smile

thank you

<3 you all so much also.

this thread, hearts and flowers

it rained and rained and the cilantro died before i could make the lentil soup but it was sunny yesterday and today and there are some small straggly new shoots coming through. the parsley and basil are thriving though, in fact they have a virtuous ironman giving it 110% air about them that is making it difficult for me to like them.

at the risk of hating nature/fun/kittens

the cilantro died before i could make the lentil soup

sounds like plato's otm

jaq the peonies are still in shock

poor things - well, if i got dug up with a sharp steel shovel to the midsection, i'd be in shock for a season or two. If the leaves are still green, they'll probably bloom next May.

i made t.s's lentil soup and it is really delicious, a keeper.

; )

i picked nearly 300 raspberries this morning, and two strawberries.

did you make a strawberry pie?

so, did you?

our almond tree, all dressed up for easter

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8367/8532196586_e3dc49b1ea_z.jpg

and the peonies from jaq are coming up!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8532212784_702fdb9881_z.jpg

brave little soldiers!

So pretty!