My Dinner

I made an actual recipe for actual dinner tonight! I planned ahead, bought the ingredients, and followed all the steps. I am very proud. Lately I have just been eating in a way that shows very, very low expectations for myself. But it's fall, and I wanted something warm. I wanted lentil soup, specifically. I wanted to make a very typical Lebanese lentil soup, but then I found this recipe in Heidi Swanson's cookbook, Super Natural Cooking. I love her website, where she mostly tries out recipes from other cookbooks, and her book, which consists of her own recipes. I had already made the Black Tea Spring Rolls, which were awesome, although slightly unconventionally shaped due to my, um, overly creative methods. So tonight I made the Chunky Lentil Soup. The chunkiness comes from butternut squash. I had to watch an internet tutorial about how to cut a butternut squash, because all day I carried a vague anxiety, knowing I had this potentially digit-removing activity ahead of me. I like having fingers. It turns out that my usual method was correct. Cutting squash is just inherently risky. I enjoy life on the edge as usual.

Oh, the soup also has tomatoes and smoked paprika. It's super good!