Do you have broth? I would make a soup: saute the kale until defrosted, add whatever spices sound good to you (cumin or paprika would be good if you have them and onion and/or garlic powder), let them cook in the kale for a minute, deglaze with a TBS or so of vinegar, add broth or water and then add your rice and lentils and cook until tender adding more water/broth as necessary about 20 minutes.
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sj - Jan 29, 2019 2:30:05 pm PST #4579 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 29, 2019 2:30:30 pm PST #4580 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My condolences, JZ.
Jessica - Jan 29, 2019 2:59:11 pm PST #4581 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aurelia, do you have hot sauce and eggs? I'd do a rice and lentil bowl with kale (you can cook everything in one pot!) with hot sauce and a fried egg on top.
We're supposed to get single digit temps over the next two days, but since they're all at least positive numbers I don't feel I have a right to complain!
-t - Jan 29, 2019 3:53:53 pm PST #4582 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lentils, rice, and kale are a good combo, right?
Yes! Spice it up any way you like, maybe add some sort of acid and fat, yum!
aurelia - Jan 29, 2019 3:58:32 pm PST #4583 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Do you have broth?
I have some soup base that you dissolve in water. I should check the expiration date though.
Aurelia, do you have hot sauce and eggs?
I do! These are excellent ideas.
Kate P. - Jan 29, 2019 4:18:39 pm PST #4584 of 30019
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Now I want rice with lentils and kale and an egg on top.
Just read a NYT article about the weather in the Midwest, and, wow, I 100% assumed that the remark about it getting down to -60 degrees was an exaggeration. Yikes.
Dana - Jan 29, 2019 4:43:48 pm PST #4585 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I cannot express how glad I am to be far away from those temperatures.
Pix - Jan 29, 2019 4:49:06 pm PST #4586 of 30019
The status is NOT quo.
Very sorry for your loss, JZ. Thinking about you.
Maria - Jan 29, 2019 5:09:28 pm PST #4587 of 30019
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I'm so sorry, JZ.
JZ - Jan 29, 2019 5:26:54 pm PST #4588 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thank you. I managed to make it through today with only one outburst of tears (at the continental breakfast table at case conference this morning, and one of the Kaiser doctors came and asked my permission to hug me and wish me peace, because, bless this state, obtaining clear verbal consent is second nature even in the face of a blubbing administrator) and now I'm home and waiting to hear from her sister, who flew in from Rochester today. I'll be checking in with her mom.
FB is filling up with tributes to her: one person after another saying, "She was fearless, she had no limits, she was a force of nature, she was the greatest teacher I've ever had, I wouldn't be acting/singing/writing/doing XYZ if she hadn't believed in me so fiercely." But, of course, like all such people, she was also exhausting and frustrating and like a lot of her friends I had taken a decade-long time-out from connecting with her for my own sanity.
But then we fell back in a year and change ago, and she was sober but still wildly weirdly herself and it felt easy and like flying and she was brimming with plans for taping mock NPR shows and writing a play together and directing me in an Albee show and a billion other projects.
Fuck this mortality thing. It's mortal and stupid.