Cooking with Red99 pals

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Originally Posted by Alawen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The soup looked better to me without the blender. If you consciously attempt to use your knife correctly (watch a cooking show or get a book), you'll get faster and faster so that chopping vegetables is trivial. Keeping your knives sharp is very important. Why don't you eat legumes? I make a lentil stew with carrot, onion, potato, green beans and spinach that is not too far off your potato soup. The chili recipe looks pretty good to me, too.

Yeah, I really should do that. To be entirely honest I don't even know which knives are used for which things! Just kinda go at it lol :P

Uhm legumes are one of those food categories like cheese that are relatively benign, especially if you don't eat them often. But they're hard to digest, and do contain antinutrients like our friend phytic acid. Whenever you cook with beans you need to make sure to soak, sprout and boil them properly to make them easier to digest and cut down on the antinutrient content. Doing so actually makes them a pretty good source of protein, especially if your diet is limited in protein choices like mine is.

The process just takes so much time and effort that it's only a sometimes food.