fyi.. the point of this thread is to make quick.. easy.. filling.. tasty meals with ingredients that either have an infinite shelf life.. or they are easy to grow.../can be found in the wild...
lentils are a staple crop that unlike rice.. never go bad.. as long as bugs cant get to them... they will stay good forever... vacuumed/airtight containers is the way to go..
lentils are as cheap as 89 cents a pound.. or cheaper..
also you can feed a bunch of people with just a little lentils..
alone lentils really don't taste all that great..but i got 2 - 3 recipes dealing solely with lentils ill have posted up in this thread...
ill add the rest later..
first up on the chopping block is sour grass...
sour grass is all over Michigan... you can eat it raw.. and it has a nice sour taste to it.. but apparently you shouldn't eat a lot of it raw because it can kill you?
i used to eat a lot of it raw in California all the time as a kid.. idk maybe that's why im retarded..
ingredients are
sour grass.. the more the merrier.. no such thing as too much sour grass in this recipe.. but you can easily have too little..
lentils.. i used 1 cup to make 5 plates
which is a meal for 10 people...
flour.. like half a cup or less...
spices to taste.. go nuts.. cant really trump the taste of sour grass
i used garlic.. caraway seeds.. dill seeds.. and cmmon.. dunno the correct spelling.. salt n pepper obviously...
olive oil.. or vegetable oil...
can add citric acid if the sour grass inst sour enough.. depending on season.. mine was plenty sour..
its not a cheek pucker sour.. its a nice tasting sour.. cant really explain it..
this is sour grass...
will have a different recipe with this other grass later
pluck all the leaves..
lentils
water.. oil.. 1 cup of lentils.. pressure cooker for faster cooking
wash/boil the sour grass to cook it... dump it into the blender..
my hand was burned badly in an unrelated incident..
so i skimmed on picture taking... sorry..
strainer..
yes this looks nasty. but that's cooking...
lentils done.. taste em with a spoon they should be soft...
dump in some of the liquid you strained from the sour grass...
leave a little for the thickening mix..
dump in a little flour... and stir it well.. make sure no clumps of flour..\
thickening mix done
this is the part where you get the awesome aromas... and we haven't even added the spices yet..
spices/taste for this dish are
garlic.. caraway seeds.. dill seeds.. and chemmon
dump em in
then grab the thickening mix.. and slowly start dumping it in little by little...
mix fast... and hard.. to make sure it doesn't clump up.. like when you make homemade pudding if you don't stir right you you get nasty clumps... leave it on the stove till you think its done cooking... it will form bubbles that splash everywhere when they pop.. that's how you know its done..
plates ready for pour..
poured.. its one of those things that look completely different then they taste..
ready to eat... wait for it to cool..and then you just use bread to scoop it up..
can be had next to rice but that defeats the purpose i will have a how to bake your own basic bread recipe added to this thread as well.