little_tippler

One of my first recipes:

Brown Lentil Salad:

1 200g packet ready-steamed brown lentils
10 cherry tomatoes, halved
1, 0% fat cottage cheese (About 50g), cubed
a handful of roughly chopped rocket leaves and baby spinach leaves
1/4 cup cubed cucumber
1 lemon
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp red wine vinegar
8 cooked large prawns, halved
1 tsp french mustard
salt and pepper
1 tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese (grana padano)

300 calories and 6 g fat per portion (2g saturated), serves 3-4


Rinse the lentils and place in a bowl. Add the rocket and spinach leaves, the cottage cheese pieces, the cucumber, the prawn pieces, the cherry tomato halves and mix well.

In a little bowl, mix the olive oil, vinegar, french mustard, salt and pepper (a sprinkle of each), some grated lemon rind and about 1 tbsp of lemon juice. Drizzle over the salad mixture then top with the grated parmesan. Serve. Very yummy!

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918