My Eighty-seventh - Tandoori Spiced Lentils -100 Meals You Never Thought You Would Eat Pureed - Recipes for Head and Neck Cancer patients
Ummmmmm, Jeff, have you lost it? Since when has Tandoori Spiced Lentils been on anyone's top one hundred list?
Let me explain.
When I was in the fourth grade. I had a keen interest in cooking and baking. Now, I wasn't allowed to use a large knife in the kitchen, but I was allowed to use the stove and the oven. My mother allowed me to create whatever I wanted as long as I had to eat it. All failures had to be consumed. (One does not talk about the epic failure of a peanut-butter and tuna-fish sandwich) OK, so that cuts down on experimentation, but is certainly had me be more creative.
Now most everyone has had cinnamon toast; and others have had buttered toast with cinnamon; but I decided to take it another direction. As a child, I really liked soft white bread. Sometimes toast was just to crunchy and rough. What if I could make cinnamon toast with a soft center? And so was the birth of YumYum Toast.
Take the white bread and lay it out on a cookie sheet. Top each piece of bread with a pat of butter. Dump a 1/4 teaspoon to 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon-sugar on top of butter. Place the cookie sheet in the oven with the broiler on, and broil until the butter is melted, and the edges of the bread just start to brown. PRESTO!
So for those cancer treatment patients who cannot eat toast because it tears up their mouth - this might be an option.
To this day, it is a real treat when Dad sneaks white bread into the house and makes YumYum Toast for his children . . . Don't tell my wife . . .
So, how does this relate to Tandoori Spiced Lentils? I made up the recipe to Tandoori Spiced Lentils. Don't be afraid to make up your own recipes.
This recipe was created through tasting my friend, Bonnie Altemus' lentil stew. When she didn't give me her awesome recipe, I had to step out on my own. Personally, I think she made up the llentil stew on the fly, and she doesn't know the redipe - she is just that creative. . .
Tandoori spiced lentils, is one of the few dishes I make that my wife will tell me how much she loves it as she is scooping out a huge piping hot bowl.
RECIPE:
In a slow cooker add:
Cup of Lentils
Cup of Rice
Cup of Quinoa
Cup of diced Cauliflower
Cup of diced Carrots
Cup of diced Celery
Tandoori spice
Small finger of Ginger
Turmeric
Cardamom
Garam Marsala
Sumac Spice
OPTIONS:
Spinach
Green Peas
Corn
Chick Peas
White Beans
Cook for five - seven hours
By now you might have made my chili recipe. A number of years ago, My daughter spent time and Grandpa's VT house. One of his treasured dishes was tandoori chicken, with his own blend of spices, which he has not shared, but he sends up bottles of the spice. Now that my daughter is vegetarian, I don't make tandoori chicken anymore, but I do make a tandoori spiced vegetarian chili. Once Bonnie introduced me to the lentil stew, it wasn't a long jump to making tandoori spiced lentils.
SLOW COOKER
Besides the blender, I recommend owning a good slow cooker. I love the dump it and leave it aspect of slow cookers. Slow cookers also fill the air with wonderful smells, and help stimulate appetite.
HARD VEGGIES
Typically, cancer treatment patients are on some sort of opioid to manage pain, which causes opioid constipation. It is important to make sure that veggies are added to the diet regularly to help prevent this. Hard vegetables like carrots, cauliflower, and celery need to be well-done to puree best. Slow-cooking is the best way to solve this issue without to much fuss.
STARCH
I find that the mixture of lentils, rice and quinoa make a wonderful blend. And the three blend well with Indian Spices.
INDIAN SPICES
My nutritionist was always talking about the cancer prevention aspects of combining turmeric and ginger. This is a great ways to add some to your diet. I add a finger of ginger to a slow cooker instead of dicing it up, because for those not pureeing the meal, biting into a hunk of ginger can be rather disconcerting. So, I slow cook a pinkie finger of ginger, and then fish it out when the meal is cooked, and cut it up and add it to the blender.
Yes, there may be spices I added to this meal, that you may not have used before . . . go light and experiment. Sumac spice was added to our pantry, when my son brought a recipe home from college. Too me, sumac was a tree to be avoided in the woods.
Yes, I deliberately did not add any "HOT" spices. This recipe is already on on the fringe, I don't want you to make it too-spicy and have another reason for the patient to poo-poo the meal.
OPTIONS
These are the items I add at the very end. They are all items that don't take that long to cook, because I either use frozen or "canned" versions. Usually, I don't have any room left in the slow cooker to cook them anyway. Now, I made this recipe vegetarian, but you can add chicken if you want.
Let me explain.
When I was in the fourth grade. I had a keen interest in cooking and baking. Now, I wasn't allowed to use a large knife in the kitchen, but I was allowed to use the stove and the oven. My mother allowed me to create whatever I wanted as long as I had to eat it. All failures had to be consumed. (One does not talk about the epic failure of a peanut-butter and tuna-fish sandwich) OK, so that cuts down on experimentation, but is certainly had me be more creative.
Now most everyone has had cinnamon toast; and others have had buttered toast with cinnamon; but I decided to take it another direction. As a child, I really liked soft white bread. Sometimes toast was just to crunchy and rough. What if I could make cinnamon toast with a soft center? And so was the birth of YumYum Toast.
Take the white bread and lay it out on a cookie sheet. Top each piece of bread with a pat of butter. Dump a 1/4 teaspoon to 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon-sugar on top of butter. Place the cookie sheet in the oven with the broiler on, and broil until the butter is melted, and the edges of the bread just start to brown. PRESTO!
So for those cancer treatment patients who cannot eat toast because it tears up their mouth - this might be an option.
To this day, it is a real treat when Dad sneaks white bread into the house and makes YumYum Toast for his children . . . Don't tell my wife . . .
So, how does this relate to Tandoori Spiced Lentils? I made up the recipe to Tandoori Spiced Lentils. Don't be afraid to make up your own recipes.
This recipe was created through tasting my friend, Bonnie Altemus' lentil stew. When she didn't give me her awesome recipe, I had to step out on my own. Personally, I think she made up the llentil stew on the fly, and she doesn't know the redipe - she is just that creative. . .
Tandoori spiced lentils, is one of the few dishes I make that my wife will tell me how much she loves it as she is scooping out a huge piping hot bowl.
RECIPE:
In a slow cooker add:
Cup of Lentils
Cup of Rice
Cup of Quinoa
Cup of diced Cauliflower
Cup of diced Carrots
Cup of diced Celery
Tandoori spice
Small finger of Ginger
Turmeric
Cardamom
Garam Marsala
Sumac Spice
OPTIONS:
Spinach
Green Peas
Corn
Chick Peas
White Beans
Cook for five - seven hours
By now you might have made my chili recipe. A number of years ago, My daughter spent time and Grandpa's VT house. One of his treasured dishes was tandoori chicken, with his own blend of spices, which he has not shared, but he sends up bottles of the spice. Now that my daughter is vegetarian, I don't make tandoori chicken anymore, but I do make a tandoori spiced vegetarian chili. Once Bonnie introduced me to the lentil stew, it wasn't a long jump to making tandoori spiced lentils.
SLOW COOKER
Besides the blender, I recommend owning a good slow cooker. I love the dump it and leave it aspect of slow cookers. Slow cookers also fill the air with wonderful smells, and help stimulate appetite.
HARD VEGGIES
Typically, cancer treatment patients are on some sort of opioid to manage pain, which causes opioid constipation. It is important to make sure that veggies are added to the diet regularly to help prevent this. Hard vegetables like carrots, cauliflower, and celery need to be well-done to puree best. Slow-cooking is the best way to solve this issue without to much fuss.
STARCH
I find that the mixture of lentils, rice and quinoa make a wonderful blend. And the three blend well with Indian Spices.
INDIAN SPICES
My nutritionist was always talking about the cancer prevention aspects of combining turmeric and ginger. This is a great ways to add some to your diet. I add a finger of ginger to a slow cooker instead of dicing it up, because for those not pureeing the meal, biting into a hunk of ginger can be rather disconcerting. So, I slow cook a pinkie finger of ginger, and then fish it out when the meal is cooked, and cut it up and add it to the blender.
Yes, there may be spices I added to this meal, that you may not have used before . . . go light and experiment. Sumac spice was added to our pantry, when my son brought a recipe home from college. Too me, sumac was a tree to be avoided in the woods.
Yes, I deliberately did not add any "HOT" spices. This recipe is already on on the fringe, I don't want you to make it too-spicy and have another reason for the patient to poo-poo the meal.
OPTIONS
These are the items I add at the very end. They are all items that don't take that long to cook, because I either use frozen or "canned" versions. Usually, I don't have any room left in the slow cooker to cook them anyway. Now, I made this recipe vegetarian, but you can add chicken if you want.
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