bon appetit

Hey bees and bears,

I did some food shopping saturday. I bought some things for my crockpot red lentil and chickpea tagine. I was first introduced to tagine when I worked in a restaurant owned by a pair of morrocan brothers. Tagine is typically north african style of cooking. A tagine is a type of pot. Tagine can include a variety of ingredients.it can be vegetarian but typically I think it includes chicken or lamb. Since I don't have a traditional tagine, I'm using a crockpot. I love the crockpot and highly suggest to anyone who likes to make big batches and freeze for later. I usually make soups in mine. But I've made beef stew for my mom and she like it a whole bunch. I made a whole chicken for micheal once and he really liked it. As far as I'm concerned, I'll stick to veggies.
It was my intention for the ingredients in my crockpot to take the shape of some veggie stew with my inspiration coming from morocco. I'm not exactly sure what happened. But it tasted a bit flat and when I stirred it, it just looked like vegetable soup. It wasn't thick. It was a veggie mish mosh. Very disapponting. I took my cinnamon stick and bay leaf out and pureed half the soup and then returned it back to the slowcooker. I added a bit more salt and pepper, and it actually tasted really good as a soup. Throwing half in the blender gave it a little body. The cloves also gave it a nice perfumey flavor. I've never been into cloves. I've been experimenting with them recently and I'm kinda diggin' them. So here is my recipe for my tagine inspired mish-mosh soup.

1 large onion diced small
5 small mixed peppers(red,yellow, orange
1/4 cup canola oil
4 cloves garlic (minced)
2 cans chick peas rinsed well
1 cup red lentils
1 large can diced tomatoes
4 cups water(or veggie stock-your choice)
1tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp paprika
8 cloves
A pinch of whole cardomon seeds
2 bay leaves

saute your onions, peppers and garlin in oil until tender. put int the slowcooker with the rest of the ingredients. Cook it on low overnight. Puree half in the blender. And return to the crockpot and re-season to your taste.
Hope you enjoy this happy little mistake lol
Off for now boys and girls!

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