Dinner Bowl #141
Continuing on my frugal journey: Roasted potatoes, chopped cabbage roll skillet (recipe from The First Mess ), and homemade cashew sour cream. This was another "I have this stuff anyway" meal, but using pretty cheap ingredients anyway. This cabbage roll skillet is made from cabbage, lentils, rice, canned tomatoes, tomato paste, and a bit of walnuts. (Nuts are not actually expensive if you consider the cost per serving rather than the cost per pound--I find that helps me a lot. But I had the nuts anyway.) And this was delicious! It had all the good flavors I associate with cabbage rolls. I didn't have French lentils so I used plain old ordinary green lentils and they were fine. I soaked the lentils for about 4 hours before I cooked them, because I just prefer lentils soaked, but otherwise cooked this as written. I think I would have preferred the cabbage cooked with the rice and lentils rather than roasted in the oven, but there was something about roasting the cabbage t...
