{"id":82,"date":"2008-10-16T22:38:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T03:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-10-16T22:38:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T03:38:56","slug":"comfort-that-doesnt-come-from-a-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Comfort that doesn’t come from a can"},"content":{"rendered":"

All week long, I’ve been feeling under the weather. I think I’ve got some sort of stomach bug. Either that or a combo of GERD, PMS, and depression. It doesn’t matter which, I’ve been feeling crappy and food has not been my friend. <\/p>\n

Tonight, I was craving beans. A big hot bowl of pinto bean soup with corn bread. However, that also wasn’t quite what I wanted either. But something warm and cozy, like a blanket for my insides. I dug around my pantry and found a bad of “harvest soup” mix that I’d picked up at the Amish market a year or so ago. It’s a mixture of various colored lentils and split peas with wild rice. <\/p>\n

I put that into my biggest pot with some water and chicken broth. I peeled several cloves of garlic and dropped them in whole and let the whole thing simmer for a bit, throwing in a few herbs and a healthy bit of salt. It tasted ok as it was, but it needed something more. It needed carrots. <\/p>\n

So, I got dressed and trudged over to the Kroger. I picked up 3 carrots, 1 parsnip, 1 teeny turnip, 1 large potato and an onion. Brought that home and chopped it into the soup then back to ransacking the pantry for tomatoes. For some reason I thought I had a zillion cans of tomatoes, I found one. And one can of tomato sauce. Put both of those in the soup with a bit more chicken broth and let it cook until the veggies were tender.<\/p>\n

I wound up with a lovely root vegetable stew. I ladled it into a bowl and found that it still needed something….<\/p>\n

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I put a small dollop of leftover garlic yogurt sauce in the center with some parsley. So good I had to eat three bowls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All week long, I’ve been feeling under the weather. I think I’ve got some sort of stomach bug. Either that or a combo of GERD, PMS, and depression. It doesn’t matter which, I’ve been feeling crappy and food has not been my friend. Tonight, I was craving beans. A big hot bowl of pinto bean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}