I missed you, internets

[eruthros]

I am back at home -- I got back last night and then had liverelibre over for chats and eggnog. And then I woke up today in my own space, put on my pajamas, and read all most some of the internets. (I still have like 200 things left in my google reader, of which about 195 are things that will make me angry or sad, and I haven't attempted tumblr at all, and also I skimmed a lot of dw.)

But! I am left with a dilemna. This is my dilemna:

I used up some most all of the spoons running hobble-speed-walking in the airport yesterday, when my first (delayed) flight deboarded about twenty-five minutes before my second flight was scheduled to depart. So I hustled through the airport with my bags and jogged up and down many escalators and did complicated cane-and-bag swaps for the stairs and made it to the other terminal and collapsed by the door of my second flight twelve minutes before it was scheduled to depart and probably too late for them to still have the door open ... just as they switched the sign to "delayed." Fuckers. I had a whole hour and a half, as it turns out, and had they mentioned the maintenance delay on the departure info screen I might not have, you know, run through the airport.

Anyway, as a consequence I am doing "lying on sofa with hot pad" and not my planned "going grocery shopping." But it is nearing dinnertime, and I'm hungry, but I don't really want any of the delivery options, and there's no way I'm walking to the grocery store.

So! Internets, what would you make for dinner if you had: lots of cans of beans of various sorts, coconut milk, canned crushed/diced/sauced tomatoes, ww pasta, dry lentils, brown and black rice, various baking things including coconut and chocolate chips and butter and canola oil, dried fruit, oatmeal, frozen corn, four eggs that miraculously survived, and a square of cheddar cheese? All I can think of is black beans and eggs (which I had for lunch), black beans and rice (which is rather similar to what I had for lunch), and pasta + tomato sauce + cheese, which is not hugely nutritious but will be fine if I can't think of anything else.

PS: If your answer is "brownies," please be prepared to share a favorite recipe.

PPS: I might not get out tomorrow, and anyway this is often the contents of my cupboards when low on food, so additional suggestions are always welcome!

Comments

[thefourthvine]

That does sound like Eggs in Hell! Although yours is more like classic huevos rancheros, really - the only difference is tomato sauce v. salsa. (And you're supposed to poach them, but really I do them over-easy, too. Poached eggs worry me a little.)

As for the soup - the rice in lentil soup thing is a vegetarian standard. (I know people who would not have survived college without it.)

My brother-in-law is Turkish, and there's a classic Turkish soup he and my sister make at least once a week that I make once a month or so (in the less hot months) because it is so easy and so nommy and a complete protein besides.

It's basically what I outlined to you, except we generally add a few things you don't (didn't?) have - we start out with onions and garlic and carrots in the pan and cook those in olive oil before adding the (red) lentils and rice (brown or white) and water or stock. We also add a LOT of aleppo pepper (you can use some crushed dried red pepper flakes in place of these, if you don't spend a lot of time around Turkish people or Penzey's) and a lot of salt at the end (it really does need this - you add and taste and add and taste and waaaaay after your instincts are telling you you've added too much, the soup suddenly pops and becomes 3x more tasty). My sister makes hers a complete moosh with the blender, so that her kids don't see the evil carrots lurking in there, and I sort of half-blend mine so we can still see some of the carrots. And then it's served with lemon wedges, so people can add lemon juice to theirs if they want. (I always want.)

Since you don't need the carrots or lemons - they are nice but not necessary - this is an incredibly easy soup (and relatively fast; it's usually done in half an hour or forty minutes) that relies on ingredients you can keep around basically forever. I advocate intensely for this soup!