When it comes to soups and stews, it’s handy to have a lentil or split pea recipe in your repertoire. When simmered over a long period of time, these high-fiber dried peas and lentils soften and ...

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot. Nine days old.” — Traditional English nursery rhyme. We’re past Election Day and looking ahead to Thanksgiving. Chilly, cloudy, wet, ...

•3 tablespoons olive oil •3 cloves garlic, chopped •5 carrots, peeled and chopped •5 ribs celery, sliced •1 pound turkey sausage, casings removed •6 cups chicken broth •2 cups dried yellow split peas ...

Place the eggs in a large pan with cool water to boil. In the meantime, in a medium sauce pan wash the yellow split peas and put 4 cups of water, half chopped onion, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp cumin and 1 ...

Tuck this recipe away for a cold winter day. Bring ½ cup water to simmer in large saucepot over medium-high heat. Add onion, and cook about 5 minutes, until translucent. Stir in ginger, and cook 1 ...

- Place the dried peas, onion, water, and 1 tablespoon of salt in the slow cooker. - Cook on high for 3 1/2 hours. Reserve 1 cup of the soup, and using an immersion blender, puree the rest.

This dal is particularly special, made in the way I’d jotted down after spending time with a local Sri Lankan family, with half of the pumpkin blended to make it even creamier,” says Sophie Gordon, ...

In the Athens I knew when I first moved here almost 20 years ago, the taverna was still an institution. That was in the early 1990s, before a stock market boom, the Olympics, and the return of a ...

Dried pulses, beans and seeds make up a good part of my dry store cupboard as they can be turned into something warm and hearty fairly quickly. Sadly, most are flown in from other countries. Did you ...

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