One pot makes four hearty meals!! Cheap and easy and great to spend an hour on it one night and be sorted for half the week.
Brief recipe:
Heat oil/butter
Finely chop at least three cloves of garlic and warm
Throw in some cumin, turmeric, chilli flakes, and any other spices you like (I use a korma blend with different ones in)
Keep stirring so garlic doesn't burn and when they're fragrant throw in a cup or so of lentils to toast (I like red unsoaked ones)
Add in 1 or 2 sweet potatoes (cubed into small pieces) and keep stirring
Throw in a can of good chopped tomatoes
Add a cup and a half of hot water and vegetable stock
Big stir
Bring to a boil
Ten minutes later reduce to simmer (goal is to cook off the water)
Simmer for five minutes
Add in a can of coconut milk and stir
Stir in a couple handfuls of kale to wilt
Add salt and pepper
Once you're satisfied it's reduced enough (around 20 mins cooking time) turn off heat and leave for ten minutes
Done! Healthy and delicious
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Vegan Caldo Verde
* 1 large yellow onion diced
* 1 lb carrots sliced
* 6 cloves of garlic minced (but go with your heart as always for garlic)
* Cayenne pepper
* 2 tbsp Better Than Boullion veggie base (optional)
* 2-3 russet potatoes sliced
* 1-3 bunches of kale chopped depending on bunch size on how much of a kale fiend you are (lacinato is my preference)
* 1-2 cans of cannellini beans
In a large dutch oven (mine is 5.5 quarts) or pot heat 2-3 tbsp olive oil over medium heat and saute the onion and carrots for a few minutes. I sprinkle in some kosher salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper too. Throw in the garlic and saute for another minute. I like to turn up the heat to medium high to get the fond/caramelization at the bottom of the vessel, just be careful that it doesn't burn.
Pour in 2.5 quarts of cold tap water and scrape off the fond at the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. This may result in a satisfactory broth on its own for you, but you can add the veggie base if you want. Turn up the heat to high to get the broth to boil, then toss in the potatoes. Turn heat back down to medium to maintain boil.
When the potatoes are tender, go to town on them with a masher, then add the kale. When the kale is like 2/3 done I add the cannellini beans and keep cooking until the kale and beans are done.
I love this recipe bc it's easy to shop for, easy to make, filling (you can add leftover rice to make it even more filling), budget-friendly, and nutritious. You can freeze it too.
I'd love to show you how it's done and we can enjoy soup together lmao
White rice + broccoli + protein
Most of the time I'll use canned sardines or ground turkey or pork chops or chicken breast/thigh, but I've used tofu before.
Jun 28, 2024
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onion + celery + potato cut up small + garlic+ other veg if you want
sautee in olive oil
add turmeric black pep cumin red pep
add lentil and water or stock
cook for like 20 minutes or until you like
add tomato sauce/tomato paste and lime juice
cook some more
Eat
Jan 25, 2024
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Oh god!!!! lentils!!! You can eat them for days in a variety of ways
Sauté onion, celery, carrots or PARSNIPS
Get some tomato paste and MISO mixed and melted
Cumin, paprika, curry mixes
Lentils, a cup?
Salt obvi
Water, enough to cover and then some (you can always add more)
Bring to boil, cover, reduce
check water levels now and then. should not be soupy, not dry, just a lil saucy wetness
Taste
W sauce, rice vinegar
Taste, chefs kiss?
I eat with a side of lemony arugula and topped with an egg dotted w hot sauce
Can also reheat the next day, add a bit of goat cheese, make salad w arugula, pass out ur so healthy and amazing and tasty
Feb 28, 2024
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1. Don't set an alarm and wake up naturally. Snooze for however long you want to, it's okay
2. Have breakfast. For me it's toast. Have it with butter/jam/honey and a lot of water and coffee and juice.
3. Listen to an album in full and do some puzzles until it ends. I like to stick a record on and do the nyt games (connections, then wordle, then the mini, then I'm ready for a crossword)
4. Shower and use all your best stuff. Smell great. Make your hair feel soft.
5. Wear an outfit you don't get to wear that often. I tend to wear the same thing over and over at work so I wear something a bit more fun and less practical.
6. Go outside. I live near a road with secondhand shops that are great browsing but quite tempting on a budget. To beat the temptation just look in the windows and then walk round the streets or to a green space if it's a nice day. Walk as fast or as slow as you like. Try and spot cats that might let you stroke them. See how each place you go smells different. Walk down streets that you've not been down before just because.
7. Come home and decide how much energy you have. If you have energy do an activity (I would write, play an instrument, do some art, read, play a game) if you don't then watch something from your watchlist. Saturdays feel like a good day to watch something new.
8. Cook yourself a meal. Start before you're hungry and spend ages on it. Use every pot. Listen to music. Sing whilst you wash the dishes.
9. Play! Video games, board games, internet games, card games, phone games, rearrange your plushies, embrace your inner child. Play with ideas, experiment with felt tip pens, write a limerick. Get silly with it.
10. Talk to your friends. Invite them over, call somebody up, text that person back you didn't have time to. I like to spend a good day off by myself then have a great time talking to people after I've recharged.
11. Have so much fun getting to do whatever you want you fall asleep at whatever time. Monday - Friday is about appeasing your body clock, Saturdays are for filthy pleasures like falling asleep at 3am because you were too busy flirting or reading or watching videos.
Apr 16, 2024
Re: my last rec I'm kinda realizing reading this might have changed my life actually
Apr 16, 2024