E is for eggs, in all of their forms.Breakfast: Plate of fried eggs.Lunch: Broiled eggplant slices.Dinner: Egg-fried eggplant with....more fried eggs! Needless to say by the end of the day I had consumed my daily allotment of eggs and eggplant.
D is for…
D is for Day, Snow. Hooray for snow in Austin! Still went into lab but it was pretty cool to see snow covered streets and mostly empty roads on my way in. Stopped by Ken's Doughnuts on the way to grab breakfast leading to:Breakfast: Doughnuts! I asked for a random assortment and started eating them …
C is for…
C is for crazy culinary cooking challenges! Or in this case:Breakfast: Dried cranberries and cashews.Lunch: More dried cranberries and cashews. Serious, so many cranberries and cashews! I brought the carrots and celery as well but only had brief periods to eat and it was too much work to open new bags. At the end of …
B is for…
Day 2: The 'B'eezneezThe picture above shows my meals for the day. They were divided as such:Breakfast: Fresh blueberriesLunch: Big bag of banana crisps. Had I realized I would be at lab as late as I was I probably would have supplemented it with Matt's offer to grab a Chipotle burrito after class.Dinner: Broccoli and …
A is for…
Welcome to my newest culinary adventure.As with the lentil adventure (http://thegreatlentiladventure.blogspot.com/), this one started with a conversation with a friend. My buddy Matt mentioned in passing one night that he had once partaken in an adventure of alphabetical proportion: eat and drink things that only began with one letter of the alphabet each day and …
Recipe #20/20: Final Lentil Adventure!
YEAH! After nearly three months since recipe nineteen, I have finally finished. I knew for a while that for the last recipe I wanted to do a tour de lentils simply preparing as many different types of lentils as I could with small accompaniments. So without further ado, the final lentil meal:Lentils Accompaniment Green Butter-sautéed …
Recipe #19/20: Lentil Pita Bread!
Well, we're nearing the end of this journey. So many crazy recipes over the last few months have been created from our dear friend: the lentil. I've learned so much about what this ingredient can do and hope that I've been able to pass a little of that along.The last couple of weeks I've been …
Recipe #18/20: Lentil Pasta!
Last few recipes coming down the pipe! I recently acquired a few attachments for my stand mixer, so I thought I'd try this one out. To be straight forward, it didn't turn out as well as I would have hoped, but I feel like most of that is my utter lack of experience in pasta …
Recipe #17/20: Lentil Hummus
Well I didn't finish by the end of '09, but I have some pretty cool recipes planned out for the last few. This one is courtesy of my good friend Hillary and the people at chow.com. This red lentil hummus is quite tasty and good on anything from pita chips to veggies. The only thing …
Recipe #16/20: Lentil Ice Cream!
Ready for the most commonly posted blog statement?:Sorry I haven't posted recently, but I've been really busy.Yeah, yeah. Lame excuse. To my defense though, applying to twelve Ph.D. programs does leave little room for lentil blogging. In fact, I made this recipe for Thanksgiving and am not posting it until nine days before Christmas. Since …
Chortles and Harrumphs 