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Saturday, April 14th, 2007 05:33 pm
lentil thingy

1. DOUBLE the spices, at least the curry powder and the black pepper and the ginger.
2. YES on the stick blender.
3. Water to other-stuff ratio is perfect for soup.
4. Whoever wrote (on the bag of barley, no less) that 1/4 cup of dry barley makes 2 cups of cooked barley was smoking something. But that's OK, because this would have been just as good without. I'll figure out something else to do with the rest of the barley.
5. YUM!

I'll definitely make this again... when I run out of this batch, which will take a while.

[edited to add: It separates, in an hour or so, into glop and a thin layer of water. There is probably a fancypants way to fix this. Me, I'm happy to just stir it. It certainly stays mixed long enough to eat it.]
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 01:57 am (UTC)
barley, particularly pearled barley, is on my list of grains to eat. I have not had any in years, so if you find good uses for it, please share.
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 02:38 am (UTC)
Soitenly! F'rex, I don't know if there's any reason at all "risotto" can't be based on some other grain. I may find ou... oh hey, look what Google found for me. I can imagine easy-ifying something like that. I might even have time tomorrow to try!