Bilbo's Underground Stew

I went for lunch yesterday at St. Martin's Table, a local church-run vegetarian restaurant which donates all tips to charities, and had a delicious bowl of Bilbo's Underground Stew. It was so good I asked to get the recipe and they gave it to me: enough to serve 60 people! However I was lucky enough to find the recipe for Bilbo's Underground Stew online here! And you can set it for as many or as few servings as you would like.

I thought it would be fun to post for the LOTR fans on my list as well as those working on getting a healthier lifestyle, because it seemed such a hobbity recipe, as well as a delicious way to make sure you eat your vegetables. (Only problem: can anyone suggest a good substitution for the sour cream? Light sour cream, or. . .?)

(See my earlier post linking to the recipe for Bag End Seed Cake).

Edited to add: songbirds suggests 1 cup of cottage cheese blended with 2 tablespoons of milk and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice for the sour cream substitute (see http://recipestoday.com/resources/articles/subchart.htm). Several others have suggested a cup of yogurt.

Sig line from a friend's e-mail

"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."

Computer report

We have achieved new levels of bafflement. The tech department at Rob's store found no virus on the (new) hard drive that suddenly won't boot. One bit of good news: all the data and file structure seems to be intact.

He's taking the whole CPU in on Monday.