Simple Lentil Soup

A tall glass jar of bright red Indian lentils has been sitting on my counter, untouched, for ages. I decided that I needed to do something about that, so I whipped up this lentil soup. It turned out surprisingly well for how easy to make it was! It's a very comforting soup to curl up and drink out of mug!

First, saute up some onions and garlic in olive oil, throw in some finely chopped cilantro (or parsley), chili powder, cumin, salt and coriander.
At the same time, boil water and add a cube of vegetable stock. (Or just use vegetable stock from a container...might be hard to get in Oman...)
Cook the lentils in that liquid for 20 minutes. The amount of lentils and water you should use depends on how liquidy you want your soup! Using less will make it more like dhal.

Dice up a can of canned tomatoes and add to the sauteed mix. Add this to the pot of lentils and stir. Next, scoop out about 1/3 of the lentils and puree in the blender, and pour back into the pot. Stir.

You're done!

Wine Review-Bordeaux

"Chevaux des Girondins"
2002
Bordeaux
French

I really liked this bottle. It had deep, smokey fruit flavors. A very nice round taste. Would go well with dark meats or even sipped by itself.

3.0 RO

two thumbs up!

Grilled Kebabs

 

Here's a picture of the grilled veggies and meat from the post below!

Smoked Vegetable Omlette with Sweet Potato Hash Browns

Sounds good doesn't it? And it's so simple to make. This tasty dish (at anytime of the day!) goes great as day 2 after a previous day's kebab grilling. If you have grill, light up the fire and skewer up lots of veggies of your choice. Add some kebabs with chunks of beef, lightly marinated with oil, chili powder, salt, zaatar (a Lebanese spice mix) and curry powder.

Enjoy that with some Arabic bread or whole wheat wraps from the store.

Make sure you leave some left overs to dice up for the next night's dish.

Mix up 5 eggs with some salt, cumin and a pinch of chili powder. Pour the eggs over the sauteed veggies and meat from last night that you diced up. Flip it over and add your favorite cheese. The best for this dish in my opinion is smoked mozzarella, but a mix of mozz and cheddar works well too.

For the side dish of sweet potato hash brown: Grate up a sweet potato, with skin on, and soak it in water for a half hour with brown sugar and salt. Then lightly fry in a patty until golden brown on both sides.

Enjoy!