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Archive for the ‘Beans, Lentils, & Peas’ Category

June 9th, 2008

Split pea soup with smoked turkey (OAMC)

Easy-peasy (sorry!) recipe for split pea soup that you can set up in a crock pot before you leave the house and have table-ready in an instant when you return! All you need to add is crusty bread or rolls. This is also an excellent OAMC recipe, freezing very well, and heating up again […]

By Cyndi Lavin -- 0 comments

May 23rd, 2008

Portable picnic side dishes from iVillage

iVillage is showcasing some lovely side dishes that would be perfect for any picnics you’ve got planned for this weekend or Monday, including this delectable-looking baby potato dish:

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By Cyndi Lavin -- 0 comments

May 15th, 2008

Fried rice and ginger

If you’ve pre-cooked some rice and edamame during your once a week food preparation time, this meal will go together in under thirty minutes! You can often find edamame already shelled and cooked in the freezer section. This is how I buy it when I can find it, since there don’t seem to be any […]

By Cyndi Lavin -- 1 comment

April 16th, 2008

Falafel

Falafel is traditionally fried in a deep pool of olive oil, but it’s possible to bake them instead with less oil if you’d prefer. I like to actually start mine out by frying, just to get a crisp coat on both sides. Then I transfer them to the oven for the remainder of the cooking […]

By Cyndi Lavin -- 0 comments

April 11th, 2008

Red lentil curry

Although red lentil curry makes a super side dish, we prefer it as a hearty main dish along with basmati rice. It’s quite tasty, and also very pretty! Even though the ingredient list is long, it goes together very quickly, easily under 30 minutes, and if you’ve pre-cooked the rice during your once a week […]

By Cyndi Lavin -- 2 comments

April 4th, 2008

Spicy lamb & black bean chili

Chilis are hard to make quickly! That’s because they benefit so much from long slow cooking that lets the flavors develop. Still, this particular chili is so flavorful, that even if you have to make it quickly at the end of the day as a thirty minute meal, it’ll taste great. It would just be […]

By Cyndi Lavin -- 3 comments

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