Lentils, tinned fish and chickpeas — oh my! Dispatches from my Great Pantry Clean Out
SalonI recently signed a lease for a new apartment in Chicago, which is about five hours away from my current home in Louisville. The logic behind the recommendation is twofold: 1) It's a way to slowly clean out your kitchen so you're neither hauling ingredients halfway across the country nor wasting food in a last-minute toss-out. The next night, I followed Priya Krishna's "A Beginner's Guide to Making Dal" as a way to use up a bag of pink lentils. The bakers' versions of David Attenborough and Jamaican poet 'Miss Lou' look like creatures from a knock-off version of 'The Dark Crystal,' while Paul Hollywood is forced to cut through Marie Antoinette's cheek and a contestant's David Bowie is, as Prue puts it, 'about as far away from David Bowie as you could get.'" As Salon's Erin Keane wrote in a recent "Oracle Pour" column, the standard base for this type of cocktail is bourbon or rye.