lentils – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:05:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 A quiet soup https://orangette.net/2010/09/a-quiet-soup/ https://orangette.net/2010/09/a-quiet-soup/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:09:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/a-quiet-soup That was not the week I planned to have. Whoa. A week ago yesterday, I went to bed like I do every night. I read “Shouts & Murmurs” in the New Yorker and wondered, as usual, why it wasn’t very funny. I set my glasses on top of the stack of books on my bedside table and then retrieved them when they fell, as usual, and slid behind the table. I felt pretty normal – which is to say, I didn’t feel abnormal. Until I woke up at 3:30 in the morning, feeling nauseous, and spent the next four days on the couch, trying to get down a glass of Gatorade. You know you’re very sick when even a nature…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2010/09/a-quiet-soup/feed/ 144 Its name is farro https://orangette.net/2009/04/its-name-is-farro/ https://orangette.net/2009/04/its-name-is-farro/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:51:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/its-name-is-farro As I type this, it is cloudy again, and cold. The weather today leaves much to be desired. Such as some sunlight, for starters, and warmth, and caramelized onions. Right now, I really, really desire caramelized onions. I know that this picture doesn’t seem to have much to do with onions, nor does it even seem appetizing, I imagine, but bear with me for a second. What you see there is my new ideal lunch: warm farro with French lentils, caramelized onions, and feta. It’s ugly as sin, and it’s also completely delicious. It’s a little like a lentil salad and a lot like mujadara, and if I could somehow ensure – maybe through magic, or fervent prayer – that…

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