Your Lentil Recipes

I gave the recipe the wife makes in that other lentil post and it is good.

However, I think they are somewhat overrated.

As I remember there is a huge Obelisk in the british museum that after the Duke or Earl or Indiana Jones or whoever the guy was who stole it in Egypt took it he smuggeled it back into England in a several ton load of lentils.

Now I will waste the rest of the night looking for that story...

Hope this doesn't mess up my Duck Dynasty viewing.

Edited to add:

I was wrong - it is the Obelisk in St Peter;s Square in Rome

Here is what Pliny the Elder wrote about it:

Pliny the Elder wrote about it in his Naturalis Historia (1st century AD). It was brought from Egypt by Caligula, on a ship filled with lentils to prevent any damage and raised in the Spina of his Circus, then called Nero's Circus. After the voyage the ship was filled with pozzolana and sunk so as to be used as the base for the left pier of Claudius' harbour, at the mouth of the Tiber.


Hard to imagine a shipload of lentils. Lots of farts in a ship load of lentils

You do know they are famous for starting farting don't you?

Here Missy GG

Other thread

I dont prepare any... I go to Jerusalem Cafe here in Mobile...my god that stuff is off the chain!

The wife does this one

Mujadarrah

She uses yellow rice in her version and I like it a lot. You probably would too.

The lentils (legume) and rice combine (metabolically) inside you to make protein so it's good for you, too.

She has a degree in Nutrition and would explain it better than I did. I should remember the metabolic string that changes the combination to protein but my biochemistry days are too far back in time.