Thursday, January 1, 2009

Vegetarian for 2 days...

I started a vegetarian diet on Tuesday. So far it is going well. After having hummus twice, I am ready to start making my own at a higher level. Today I searched out a recipe that will be prepared this afternoon. I soaked the beans yesterday, and I will make some pita bread today.
Here are the recipes I will be testing.

http://humus101.com/EN/2006/10/14/hummus-recipe/

http://mideastfood.about.com/od/breadsrice/r/pitabreadrecipe.htm


Last night I made orange curried lentils. the meal came out better than expected. I cooked the lentils first on boiling water. I then caramelized a diced onion in olive oil. When I placed them together I added about 2 TBSP of curry paste a teaspoon of cumin, a TBSP of coarse salt, half a can of tomato paste, a TBSP of minced garlic and ginger, and finally water to make it a bit thinner. This was simmered for a few minutes and served over jasmine rice. It was excellent with a little bit of homemade sambal chili sauce.

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