#Recipefail

So today I tried out a new recipe, I’m far from being a vegetarian, but I’ve been thinking about how I should maybe have “meatless” days so as to just make healthier choices.  I’m making baby steps in this direction, and one of these baby steps was going to be a lentil stew I made today.  My mom comes over on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and I cook her dinner and tonight was going to be the lentil stew option.  As I was prepping the ingredients last night I had a feeling it wouldn’t turn out.  I’m not a great cook, but I know how to follow a recipe and I feel like I’m pretty good a gauging if a recipe is going to turn out well or not.

Well we both took a small bowl to try out the stew, which was more like a soup and it just wasn’t good.  We both agreed it would probably taste better with ground beef, but then that would kind of defeat the purpose of doing a meatless meal.  We were left unsatisfied and I didn’t really have anything else available to whip up real quick so we went out to Hometown Pizza and split a salad and a small pizza.  So we didn’t really stick to the whole healthy meal idea much either… but to try and make up for that I went on a 1.5 mile walk around my neighborhood… that totally evens each other out right?

Prim was very excited to join me on a walk, she loves walks so much, and trots on ahead of me as far as I allow her to the whole time, currently she is passed out on the couch next to me, here’s a photo I took before I was able to take the laptop away from her…

So my question for you guys today is, do you have any really good lentil recipes? I had them a lot on my mission during the winter and they were delicious! I’d love some good meatless meal options, but easy on the beans, because I just don’t like beans much!