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[the_rck]

Okay. I couldn’t find the bag of beans I’m sure we’ve got, but I did find some red lentils. Online pressure cooker recipes seem to indicate that those cook really fast. I have to think about how to season them, though. Scott would put in onions, but I’m not enthusiastic about that, mostly from a time/effort point of view. We have some minced garlic and minced ginger in the fridge, but Cordelia won’t eat things if there’s enough of either for her to taste.

I can get away with rosemary, dill, sage, and thyme. Thyme always tastes vaguely of dirt to me, though, so I hesitate to use it a lot. Winter savory would be good, too, but I don’t have a plant this year. I think we have some bay leaves, but they’re older than Cordelia, so I rather doubt they’d provide any flavor at all, and I don’t really want to try to fish them out again later.

Before I married Scott, I used to make regular lentils with cinnamon as a savory flavor (it actually can be), but Scott said he wouldn’t eat lentils. I have no idea why he bought these, given that. Maybe twenty years is long enough for him to be willing to try them again.

I’m kind of worried about producing another large quantity of food that only I can/will eat.

Comments

[chomiji]

Lentils do cook vey quickly - under an hour in a regular pot. I have never used a pressure cooker on them.

[the_rck]

The pressure cooker recipes I found suggest twenty minutes for lentils. I'm worried that's too long, but I can use the pressure cooker more safely than the stove.

[adrian_turtle]

Scott would put in onions, but I’m not enthusiastic about that, mostly from a time/effort point of view.

There are a lot of days when I think it's too much trouble to cut up an onion and cook it. Especially because I don't want to eat onion unless it's cut very small and cooked very thoroughly. [TMI in footnote.] One alternative is to throw in a small whole onion and fish it out before serving. Another alternative is https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/onions-white-minced/c-24/p-1112/pd-s (Krogers may sell something similar.)

Then I discovered I could buy frozen chopped onions at Trader Joe, and sometimes at other supermarkets. The 1-pound bag fits in a quart ziploc, and it's a lot easier to bang it on the counter and measure out a few tablespoons than to chop half an onion.



[footnote] From the days when my migraines and migraine meds had me vomiting more often, I can say with confidence that uncooked/undercooked onions are among the worst foods to throw up. Watermelon is among the easiest. Along with the well-known bananas or rice.

[the_rck]

Thanks for the tips. I'll have Scott look into it.

The main thing for me about onions is that fried onions is one of the worst odors for making me sick when I have a migraine.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

lentils cook up really quickly in the pressure cooker. It's easy to turn them to mush.

[the_rck]

Good to know. Thanks!