My main inspirations for my cooking are also my main limitations: time, money, and a need for real nutrients. My husband and I are both studying for the Bar Exam right now. Yes, it was a ridiculous thing to do to ourselves. This means that it has never been so important that we both stay healthy and so imossible to actually take the time to be healthy. In order to maximize our health, minimize our "footprint," and stay efficient, we eat a whole lot of fruits and veggies and have to do a little extra planning (and chopping). I stick to a vegetarian diet (confession: I just ended a pescatarian phase) and my husband only eats meat when we aren't at home (by choice
of course). But this kind of a diet can easily become very time-consuming and expensive if we aren't careful.
I really couldn't compromise our health or the opportunity we have to be good humans
today rather than when we are richer and wiser, so we try really hard to eat sustainable, local foods whenever we can afford to. Did I mention we are broke? Funny, we haven't been able to convince anyone to pay us to study yet.
More importantly for you, this lentil recipe is probably the easiest thing I have ever made in my life, except maybe for a bowl of cereal. It is also terribly budget-friendly and will make you sound cool when you tell people what you eat. Also, all of the ingredients can stay in your pantry for weeks until you decide to cook this.
