Lentil Appreciation + Recipe Thread

[Salathor]

Bringing this back to the earlier topic on gas--have a couple of kids and any inhibitions about ripping one will probably fade away. If there's four of you in the house, someone is probably gassy all the time.

[Western Red Cedar]

That there is a whole squash, not processed anyhow. After a few hours of slow cooking turns out soft and succulent, skin inclusive, serve with a spoon, texture of butter. No more trying to peel a squash in fear of cutting your finger. Seeds turn out a nice addition of fat an protein, yummy to eat through.

Squash is finally in season and on sale so I made the notorious lentil soup with a full butternut squash last night. I opted to use the slow cooker rather than the instapot just to be safe. I had cooked up some bacon to make BLT's for dw for dinner and lunches this week. I used the bacon fat to make a mirepoix then just added that along with cabbage, squash, lentils and a variety of herbs and spices with a little bullion. I let it cool in the fridge overnight and blended it today while I was listening in to a staff meeting

Turned out great.

[guitarplayer]

Good stuff @WRC!

Recently I have also been putting in whole leaves of cabbage to cook in the slow cooker - they cook such nicely that then later can be used as wraps. This is vaguely reminiscent of one traditional food from where I am from.

[shaz]

@guitarplayer that looks like halupkis (maybe slightly different spelling of the same thing?). Now I feel like duh! Why did I never think of prepping the cabbage leaves in the slow cooker? I'm going to try that with my next cabbage.