Nada

Today I came home starving for lunch, as usual.  But I had nothing to fix.  That is what I thought.  Nada. And so hungry.
But after some scrounging, I found some old zuchini in the back of the crisper that I sauteed with an onion and minced garlic. I also threw in a minced serrano pepper an some frozen corn.  I let it simmer with some water, a no-beef bullion, and a can of fancy fire-roasted diced tomatoes, cumin and chili powder and at the end a big handful of spinach- and there I had Calabacitas!  I warmed up some corn tortillas on the comal and lunch was heaven.
The only bad part was cutting my finger with the can opener and then remembering I had diced a serrano using said finger.  Very painful.

Ciao!

Lentils

So for some reason I have four partially-used bags of lentils in my cupboard.  I looked to my old friend, Mollie Katzen for support, and made a double batch of a new recipe (new to me anyway) of walnut-lentil veggie patties.

The house smelled divine- my mother said when she dropped in this morning.  I was sauteeing finely chopped onions and mushrooms and walnuts.  The recipe also called for dry mustard.  The result was a bit moist so I baked, then broiled the heck out of them and now they are tolerable, but I added extra salt, as I do when I suspect the cookbook author is "health conscious."  And now they are too salty. And there are a heck of a lot of them.

So suffice it to say I am still on the lookout for a way to use up my lentils (still four bags but a cup less).  I have always wanted to try a lentil curry- maybe that will be next.