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Lentil Soup with Spicy Italian Sausage

Maris Callahan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:56:23 +0000

I am, very easily, one of the world’s lightest sleepers. Somehow, I’ve honed the ability to sleep more soundly as I get older, but I only attribute that to the fact that I get less sleep and therefore, I crash harder when I eventually do drag myself to bed. Very early Wednesday morning, there was a small earthquake in the Western suburbs of Chicago. I slept straight through it, which was fine by me, because if I had been awake I might not have noticed it anyway and wouldn’t that be embarrassing? Between the earthquake – however mild – and the foot of snow that was concurrently being dumped on Chicagoland, this week was a little surreal. The kind of week where at the end of the day, you don’t feel like grocery shopping, you don’t feel like going to the gym and you don’t feel like spending two hours cooking dinner. Lentils are legumes and like other dried beans, are a great source of cholesterol-lowering fiber. They also help manage blood-sugar disorders, since their high fiber content prevents blood sugar levels from rising rapidly after a meal. As an added bonus: lentils have about 200 calories per cup and […]

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Sunday Plans: Lentil Soup with Potatoes and Ham

Maris Callahan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0000

On Sundays I always fantasize about getting all of my laundry, errands and exercise out of the way early so that by 3 or 4 PM, when the sun is still out but the air is turning crisp, I can be planted in the kitchen prepping meals for the week. That almost never never happens. Instead, my Sundays are usually a jumble of brunches, treadmill runs, hours idling on my balcony when the weather is nice, and an equivalent number of hours spent glued to my laptop catching up on my neverending reader. Before long, it’s 6PM and I have about 4 hours worth of laundry and productivity in front of me before I get to veg out on the couch, as Sundays were intended for. But eventually, I got around to making lentil soup. I’ve made it a few times before with a recipe, which I know I have written down somewhere, but I couldn’t find it and decided to improvise. Save Print Lentil Soup with Potatoes and Ham Author: Maris Callahan Recipe type: Cooking for a Crowd, Worknight Dinner Prep time: 30 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 50 mins Serves: 50 Ingredients Lentil Soup with Chunky Potatoes and […]

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