{"id":3230,"date":"2011-09-25T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2011-09-25T22:18:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T05:18:36","slug":"my-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3230","title":{"rendered":"Scratch One Off My To Do List."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have about 200 photos from the first soccer games this weekend still on my camera that need to be downloaded, edited and backed up. And I have a sticky note with blog post ideas and promises that I’ve made – like “how I put the supercapes together’ (I promise it is coming, Carey!) and all sorts of other “when I get around to its” that I could be writing.<\/p>\n

But here is one that is pretty easy and I can cross off my to do list right now – the recipe for the Lentil Salad that I’ve been raving about almost every day for lunch. Although I guess now that fall is upon us, most of my friends and family are looking for a lentil soup recipe!<\/p>\n

At any rate, my friend Diane introduced me to this lentil salad from Nicole’s – the little french bistro in South Pasadena. It was delicious – but expensive – so I’ve been trying to perfect the salad at home. It is close…so very close!<\/p>\n

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I use the already cooked lentils from the refrigerator section at Trader Joe’s. I have some dried lentils in the pantry, but haven’t attempted to soak, rinse, cook them yet.<\/p>\n

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For the record, they are awesome right out of the package…and look! They are really good for you, too!<\/p>\n

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They have a whole 8g of fiber for 1 serving! Nice.<\/p>\n

But to make them even tastier, and more like the Nicole’s salad, you will also need:<\/p>\n

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A little olive oil, parsley, lemon, scallions (I only had little green onions on this day – also works!), salt & pepper.<\/p>\n

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Chop the onion ( I used one green onion), squeeze the juice of one lemon, chop up a little-ish bunch of parsley, give one round dash of olive oil (once around the medium-sized bowl), and mix it all up with the lentils. Salt and pepper to taste and stick it in the fridge for salads for the week.<\/p>\n

Okay, well it has never lasted me an entire week of lunches. It is about three days (tops!) worth of lunch for me, unless one of those days happens to be a very hard workout day. Then I get two days out of my bowl. But my bowl of lentil salad costs 1\/4 of what Nicole’s is charging.<\/p>\n

Budget friendly AND delicious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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