Comments on: Weekly Recipes: Lentil Loaf & Turnip Mashed Potatoes

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:10:00 +0000

I made your lentil loaf tonight, with green instead of red lentils, since that's what I had on hand. It came out pretty tasty. Thanks for the recipe!

Juli in NYC

By: Rosa

Rosa — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:01:00 +0000

We're really lucky that our local grassfed dairy sells 1 pound blocks of butter wrapped only in a paper wrapper.

It's expensive as heck, too, which has cut down our butter consumption quite a bit.

By: Burbanmom

Burbanmom — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:43:00 +0000

Way to be famous “Little Betty”! Everybody check out Beth’s picture on this CNet Article:

http://www.news.com/Ecobloggers-bring-the-landfill-home/2100-13838_3-6229604.html?tag=st.prev

By: har mar

har mar — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:41:00 +0000

SO proud of you!

and hungry now too.

and cracking up that your cats leave you comments.

By: SootsandArya

SootsandArya — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:25:00 +0000

We sorry we knock over ur plant thsmorning.

We not do again k?

By: terrible person

terrible person — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:25:00 +0000

Wait, "we" made lentil loaf and turnips? Take credit where credit is due -- YOU made them from concept to cleanup.

The leftover ginger from the sushi on January 6 gave a nice flavor to the stir-fried bok choy the other night. Adventures in food conservation!

BTW, it's good that you gave Kari credit for inspiring the turnips. Not for "turnips cooking". OK, no one is going to understand this, but I had to mention it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:57:00 +0000

Another good use for leftover sushi condiments: take the soy sauce, wasabi, pickled ginger, lemon wedge, or whatever else they gave you and use it as a marinade. I let chicken breasts marinate in that mixture overnight, and they were great. My husband loved it, although he did give me that “you’re completely insane” look when I told him what I’d done. You could use tofu as the protein for a vegetarian meal.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:41:00 +0000

Totally cheap, easy vegan egg replacer:
Mix:
1 Tbsp of oil
1 Tbsp water and
1 Tbsp soy flour or instant soymilk powder (available in bulk)
This replaces 1 egg and has the same binding power.
Soymilk replaces cow milk straight as well.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:44:00 +0000

Beth-you can use a soy egg replacer too and it comes in a box like a cake mix. I have used it many times.

Are the pototoes spicy with the horseradish? Can you omit it? You should start a meme on getting people to try your recipes. Just tag some people. It would be fun to see what people’s families thought.

I like the mashed potatoes with the turnips because there is no way my kids would eat turnips unless I hid them. I am going to try this recipe.

Anna http://www.green-talk.com

By: Jessica at Bwlchyrhyd

Jessica at Bwlchyrhyd — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:59:00 +0000

Tomato sauce is the EASIEST thing in the world to make. The key is to wait until there are gluts of tomatoes in the summer and buy damaged tomatoes from the farmers’ market cheaply at the end of the day. Then make it in quantity and freeze — you will wonder why on earth you ever spent money buying it…