Cooking with Gretchen

I'm moving out of my apartment in just two weeks. I don't want to buy food, so I need to be creative with what I have. I have a goal to use ALL of it.

For today?
Lentils

How To Cook Lentils Like A Boss

- Glance over some instructions about how to cook grains and beans and lentils and stuff

- Grab a bowl of lentils

- Cover them in water and let them soak over night

- Forget about them till a day later. Dang it.

- Realize you didn't need to soak them at all. Dang it.

- Put them in a pan with however much water you feel like.

- Look for herbs and spices and stuff in your room mates cupboard.

- Decide on parsley and garlic salt. 

- Add copious amounts of both.

- Read that you shouldn't add salt til AFTER the lentils are cooked. Dang it.

- Add some olive oil for good measure.

- Add WAY too much. Dang it.

- Decide to add potatoes to make up for the olive oil. (cooking karma)

- Wash, peel, and cut up two potatoes.

- Add to mix and let sit.

- The lentils are done! yay!

- The potatoes are not done. Dang it.

- Add about a bowl full of water and let it cook some more.

- Sample pieces of potato every five minutes or so to see if they're going to be done soon. They are crunchy and undercooked. Dang it.

- Wait for another half of forever.

- Decide it's done enough.

- Put some in a bowl.

- Taste it.

- Realize that despite your mistakes, you pwnd those lentils.

- Boo-yah