After a long wintery rut towards cooking, I have come around, thanks to a simple dish it's shocking I hadn't attempted before. It's simple to cook, yummy to eat, lasts forever, and gets better with age in the fridge. It can accommodate other carb sources should the need arise, and it is as flexible as it can get on the ingredients that can go in it. I speak of, of course, the Thenthuk.
PN told me to make Thenthuk last week after i told them what a miserable situation I had found myself in cooking-wise. I wasn't sure...it seemed scary, I hadn't made it before and it seemed so remote and exotic even though I've had it dozens of times at PN's. N said it was just cutting and sauteing the vegetables, and then add the water, that's it.
Then I went to Trader Joe's and found those tiny gnoccis for a really good price...a third of what QFC was asking for actually, and bought them, even if I wasn't necessarily thinking of making anything out of them. They were such a good deal, I was losing money by not buying them.
Well one thing led to another, and 45 minutes of cooking later, I ended up with thenthuk which -- no exaggeration here -- tasted way way better than I had ever imagine myself capable of making it. Such a simple dish, yet so versatile, so tasty, so outrageously healthy too. Got all the vegetables in my fridge used as well. It was wins all around.
Oh what a fun experience it was, my cooking rut is now over!
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