AS food: Polentils / Mamalinte

[Guest guest]

In the thread of several reports of us executive-limited

struggling to cook something edible with minimal fuss...

What I 'invented by error' some months ago, when living

alone for 3 weeks (parents were off to finish grandparents'

house repair, and I would have been worse there...)

I had some spicy conserved meat, and desired to make

Romanian 'mamaliga' (similar to Italian polenta: a porridge

of corn-meal) to 'dilute' it. Generally I eat very 'diluted'.

So off I filled with water the largish cast-iron kettle...

then when it was about to boil, found the corn-meal was

about 1/2 not enough - it would have been a thin soup.

Fast seek through stock... some orange-colored lentil seeds,

long unused. Added them too (1/2 concentration of a

'lentil meal'), added a little salt, waited ~20 minutes to boil.

It resulted a yellow-orange conglomerate, balanced meal

with slow-release carbohydrates and vegetal protein.

Really pleasantly smelling when new. I ate from that for

8 days, alone or with some meat, yoghurt, cheese etc.

Best wishes !

Mircea Pauca, Bucuresti, ROmania