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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Mexican Lentils | Lettuce Wap
Have I told you lately how much I love Mexican food? No? Because I do. If I had to pick one style of food to eat for the rest of my life, it'd most likely be Mexican.
So a lot of my recipes are Mexican-inspired. Like this one.
These lentils are super easy to make (and OMG delicious) and can be used in virtually any Mexican-style dish: nachos, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, wraps (as seen below), stuffed peppers, salads, a party dip, etc.
Whip 'em up and let me see what you come up with! :)
Ingredients:
1/2 C dry lentils
2 C water
1/4 t garlic powder
1/4 t chili powder
1/4 t cumin
1/2 onion, chopped
1/3 C prepared salsa (I use Pace)
salt
oil for sautéing
Method:
1. Prepare your lentils by adding them to a pot with the water and spices (including a few sprinkles of salt). Bring to boil, then reduce heat and cover. Allow to simmer for 25 minutes, until nice and soft. Drain most of the liquid.
2. Sauté your onions in a little oil.
3. Combine prepared lentils, onion, and salsa to pan and cook over low heat until most of the liquid is gone.
4. Use for quesadillas, tacos, wraps, burritos, anything you like! Enjoy!
* These wraps were made with a leaf of iceberg lettuce, Tofutti sour cream, and taco sauce.
Monday, October 21, 2013
26-Week Update
26-Week Update
Hello, friends! I hope the last week treated you well and you accomplished all you sought to do.
We had a reasonably productive week! Yay! We got "nursery #1" cleaned out and put a lot of the baby stuff away. The room had previously been occupied by a bunch of random junk that didn't have a place. We sorted through dozens and dozens of books, and other things. Some got put away, others are off to Goodwill, some are off to storage. We now have all the baby's stuff in that room (except some of the furniture, which is still in "nursery #2"--it's a long story!).
We also got registered at the hospital. Woop!
It's so nice to have gotten some things done. I'm so grateful to have the help of my wonderful family, because otherwise this probably wouldn't have happened (yet). :)
We finished up our birth classes, too. Another yay!
I'm still dead tired. I have been sleeping less and less and worse and worse the past few nights. Yuck. I feel like I've gotten no rest, despite sleeping in really late. No fun! Especially since there's still so much I need to be doing.
I think I've officially gotten my first actual pregnancy craving/obsession: veggie burgers. I'm not going to tell you how many I've had in the last week. It's in the single digits, so I think I'm okay. No 12-step program needed (yet), though, admittedly, they do occupy a lot of my thoughts. What can I say? I'm in love and I don't care who knows it! (Name that movie!)
I also took some time today to play with my new dSLR. I'm determined to master manual and aperture priority, but they're no joke! My hats off to those skilled photogs who create such gorgeous images on a consistent basis. I'm in awe of you. Hopefully I will learn this skill set quickly so I can take top notch photos of Flipper when she makes her debut. (Any tips welcome!)
Anyway, here are a couple of my favorite from the day--
Have a good week! :)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
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