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Cooking & Baking

LisaM

(29,648 posts)

1. A nut loaf.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 01:09 PM

Monday

I give up meat for Lent, but was craving mashed potatoes and needed something to go with it. Enter the nut loaf.

It was truly awful. I followed the recipe (IIRC it had lentils in it, too), but it was dense and bitter and hard to chew. I don't remember much else about it.

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