While making up my menu plan, and in an attempt to use up some of what I have in my pantry, I noticed that I had two bags of lentils. I've had them for a while now, so I figured: use 'em or lose 'em. I knew I wanted to do a soup with them, so I start my search for a new soup recipe to try. I wanted something low in fat and meatless -- not that we don't eat meat, but we are eating less meat lately.
I ended up deciding to make Ina Garten's Lentil Vegetable Soup. It made a HUGE batch. Of
carrots
Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Pasta Shells
Honey Glazed Carrots
When growing up, we had meatloaf fairly frequently and it was ALWAYS accompanied with peeled potatoes (cut into chunks) and carrots. Everything was baked together with the meatloaf, in one pan.
I always loved that dinner.
Now, cooking for my own family, carrots are a favorite vegetable side dish. Every person in our home enjoys them, and there is hardly ever leftovers. One of my favorite things about carrots? They are CHEAP. And, they are good for you. What could be better?
Carrot Pineapple Cake (My Birthday Cake)
For the last few years for my birthday, Wellie makes me a carrot cake. More often than not, it's a homemade carrot cake - and sometimes if I am lucky, I get it on Mother's Day too.
The thing about the carrot cakes she makes me if that we never save the recipe. Each year she goes on an internet search for a carrot cake that includes pineapple in it and I would imagine that each year it has been a different recipe.
This year was no different.
Wellie went on a search on her laptop and at the