'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?"

Bulwer-Lytton awards announced:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12817566&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

well, I have another pound of lentils

And we're out of lentil pottage again.

So maybe I'll try this one from the Andalusian cookbook:

al-Andalusi p. C-5 (no. 377)

Wash lentils and put them to cook in a pot with sweet water, oil, pepper, coriander and cut onion. When they are cooked throw in salt, a little saffron and vinegar; break three eggs, leave for a while on the flame and later retire the pot. Other times cook without onion. If you wish cook it with Egyptian beans pricked into which have been given a boil. Or better with dissolved yeast over a gentle fire. When the lentils begin to thicken add good butter or sweet oil, bit by bit, alike until it gets absorbed, until they are sufficiently cooked and have enough oil. Then retire it from the flame and sprinkle with pepper.