Thursday, January 14, 2021

Lentils

 

Hi Natty!  What's going on?  I hope you're keeping safe and healthy.  It's Thursday over here.  I went shopping for groceries in the morning.  I'm pretty pleased with my food budget, I managed to calculate time and what I eat to end up under budget somehow, plus I have a lot of food right now.  Oh no!  The price of lentils has gone up!  It's still cheap, after all lentils are Biblically one of the cheapest foods around.  I'm sure the price went up since I started making lentil fritters regularly.  That's what I needed lentils for.  Lentil fritters make such a great late night snack.  I make a huge batch of fritter dough, portion it out then freeze it.  I did that in the evening but it took a long time today, I barely had time to make dinner.  I've been practicing making poached eggs and fries every evening lately, I want to perfect my technique you know.  Tonight's poached eggs was a failure though.  0/3 eggs poached, or rather 2 flops and one somewhat poached egg.  The problem was the pot I used: it didn't create a very good vortex for the vortex approach.  It's a nice pot, but I won't use it for poached eggs again.  I didn't waste the eggs though.  I had mangled eggs and fries for dinner.