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Bought a 50 cent bag of lentils on a whim and they stretched into 4 dinners last week
I was always team canned beans because I thought dried lentils would be bland and mushy, but after simmering them with some garlic and a bay leaf I was proven completely wrong, so has anyone else had a cheap pantry staple surprise them like that?
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lopez.jana16d ago
Honestly followed @finleym43’s lead with split peas after seeing their post, but my real surprise was a bag of yellow cornmeal that sat around forever. Ended up making simple cornbread with it one night, just mixed with milk and an egg, and it was way better than the boxed stuff. Dried lentils are bomb too but that cornmeal opened my eyes to how little you need to make something decent from scratch.
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finleym4316d ago
Oh man, lentils really do get a bad rap don't they? I actually read somewhere that they're one of the oldest crops humans ever farmed, which is wild to think about. For me it was a bag of split peas that sat in my cupboard for months before I finally made soup with a ham bone and now I buy them all the time.
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