Lentils are, I think, one of my very favorite foods.  They are wonderfully nutritious, simple to cook, and I love their earthy, somewhat sweet taste.  I sometimes crave them.  They are my go-to meal when I don’t have a lot of time to cook and I don’t know what […]

  We have always referred to this dish as “lasagna,” because it uses lasagna noodles, but it is technically called “pastitsio.”  Sometimes pastitsio uses other kinds of pasta, but if you use lasagna as your pasta it seems like sort of like a  lasagna, but I like the béchamel sauce […]

 I am always trying to think of new ways to prepare dried beans, because they are economical and nutritious, and also because their production uses way fewer environmental resources than meat production.  I had a bag of dried chick peas (garbanzo beans) in my pantry.  They had been there for […]