Real food cooked by real people

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02bittman.html

This article recommends learning to cook three basic recipes to make yourself and the planet healthier. They are: a stir fry, a chopped salad, and a lentils-and-rice recipe. These are all staple meals in our household (add tacos - which we use as a loose term for some almost-always vegetarian combination of beans, onions, salsa, and other goodies as available, wrapped in a tortilla - to complete our list of Stuff We Eat Almost Weekly).

If you haven't already gotten my recipe for lentils yet, here you go. Mjadra is a Lebanese dish, very basic "poor people's" food, as beans and rice tends to be. It's easy - takes about 40 minutes, almost none of which requires your attention - and very low in ingredients, most of which don't spoil easily. And it's delicious. For me, for my brothers, and for my husband, it's comfort food. My father likes to say it's the lentil pottage that Esau sold his birthright for.

( here, have the recipe )