oh boy.
i don't know what it is about weekends.
sometimes i make terribly huge mistakes.
breakfast; a banana, a peach, cold brewed coffee with coconut milk, tsp sugar in the raw.
lunch; ....
snack; carrot upon realizing that i hadn't eaten since breakfast while dinner was cooking.
dinner; lentil patties, baked potato with oregano, garlic, and nooch.
water; one gallon as of 7:30 pm.
I DID NOT MEAN TO SKIP LUNCH. especially after having had such a light breakfast. i am not even entirely sure how it happened. i spent most of the day looking up chords to songs online for a project i am probably going to be doing, and then i went up to bangor to get groceries and flip flops (few joys greater than that of new flip flops), and then i came home, showered, cleaned the bathroom a little, started to make the lentil patties, and then i realized.
i hadn't eaten anything in eight hours. i was crabby, but not hungry at all. probably the water? but i don't know if that's true because i just got through the whole gallon while typing this up. but i did sleep in until around ten, so maybe that was it? weird.
lentil patties; makes about eight.
1 medium sized onion, finely diced.
between 1 1/2 and 1 3/4 cup boiled lentils (i used red, but you can use any sort you have around).
little less than 1/2 cup flour*.
between 3/4 and 1 cup shredded carrots.
1 teaspoon of some sort of seasoning (more or less).
salt to taste.
oil for frying.
*SINCE FLOUR IS A NO NO, i read online that you can basically puree steel cut oats in a blender or food processor into oat flour. so that is what i did instead of regular flour. i cannot tell you whether or not it worked as well as regular flour would, since i've never made these before, but the patties came out okay, so. i'm going to guess it did.
peel and dice the onion.
blenderize boiled lentils until smooth.
transfer blenderized lentils to bowl.
mix in all other ingredients until evenly mixed.
form into balls.
fry one side.
turn over and flatten.
fry the other side.
so, alright. i am not a very good cook. anytime a recipe calls for me to fry something, it never ends well (unless that something is tempeh and/or pan fried vegetables, and then things are usually alright). but i figured, hey, i bought lentils last year and never did anything with them, and i had all the other ingredients, and the recipe seemed simple enough, so it was worth a shot.
after "frying," my patties never really firmed up the way i thought they would. they were mushy and falling apart. so i baked them in the oven at 400 degrees for about ten minutes on each side, until the outside was slightly browned and crispy. they were really delicious AND i have leftovers for lunch tomorrow, so that is good.
i am going to eat something else after posting this. red ants on a log, probably, since they are quick and easy and yeah.
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