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How to Cook Lentils & My Favorite Lentil Recipes

by Millie Copper | Jul 24, 2023 | Cooking, Recipes

Wondering how to cook lentils? In this article, I share how to cook lentils the easy way, as well as how to sprout lentils. I also share several of my family-favorite recipes. This article was originally published in December 2011. I did not grow up eating lentils....

Recycling… Food

by Millie Copper | Apr 30, 2010 | Cooking

I’ve mentioned before how I do alot of planned overs. Making one meal and planning on turning it into another meal. This week ended up being the ultimate planned over week quite by accident. I know that I put up my menu for the week on Monday so this is a little...

Frozen Assets

by Millie Copper | Dec 16, 2010 | Cooking

It is always nice during a busy time to know that my freezer holds the basic components for a wonderful meal. I love being able to pull a few things out of the freezer in the morning and then in the evening spend a couple of minutes on assembly and Voila! We have a...

Planned Overs

by Millie Copper | Nov 5, 2009 | Cooking

I love the concept of a Rubber Chicken. Cooking one chicken and turning it into 2, 3 or more meals is not a new idea. Here is a post that shows how to turn that chicken into five meals. I’ve been using the Rubber Chicken (or Planned Overs) concept for...

Cheap Eating circa 1878

by Millie Copper | Jan 4, 2011 | Cooking

I found these books available online recently. They were all written in the late 1870’s by Juliet Corson. I’ve enjoyed them. Many of the food suggestions and ideas are still appropriate. The first book is Practical American Cookery and Household...