{"id":24094,"date":"2011-12-20T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=24094"},"modified":"2011-12-20T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:04:39","slug":"lentilles-au-vin-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=24094","title":{"rendered":"Lentilles au Vin Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"

A book I read a few months ago called “Lunch In Paris<\/a>” had some really wonderful sounding recipes in it. I saved a few and I’ve tried a few. Here is another one.<\/p>\n

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The book was a good read (and yet another book that inspires me to want to go to France) and my mouth watered at all the recipes in the book. I wanted to try all of them.<\/p>\n

“In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman–and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her\u00a0pav\u00e9 au poivre,\u00a0<\/em>the steak’s<\/em>pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce?”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I tried another recipe<\/a> from the book and it was a lovely (and fairly easy) recipe.<\/p>\n

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I had a bunch of dried lentils on hand that I never got around to using. I’d stocked up when Michael and I were doing the Slow Carb Diet because it recommended lentil soup. Unfortunately, I never got around to making the lentil soup. Time to clean out the pantry.<\/p>\n

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I had everything else on hand except for the bay leaf. I picked up a package of bay leaves from the store and got to it.<\/p>\n

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The recipe was simple. I decided to make it for dinner because I was already home taking care of my kitty<\/a> so I had extra time. I normally would not attempt to make something like this on a week night otherwise.<\/p>\n

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\nI used a mixture of both shallots and chopped onion. I wish I could remember what kind of onion I had on hand–it might be a Walla Walla Sweet. I used two small carrots and chopped them up.<\/p>\n

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\nI added the lentils to the mix, coated them and then added the rest of the ingredients to simmer for an hour. It took a little longer than an hour for the majority of the liquid to cook off. I’ll admit, I was worried that dinner would be a\u00a0catastrophe.<\/p>\n


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To go with the lentils, I made salmon too. Michael cooked two salmon fillets in the skillet seasoned with salt and pepper. The salmon doesn’t take long to cook, so maybe sure the lentils are 99% done before starting the fish.<\/p>\n

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I served dinner in a shallow pasta bowl. The lentils were cooked perfectly. I topped them with a dollop of light sour cream, add a few springs of parsley and cilantro.<\/p>\n

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I topped the lentils with the salmon and then squeezed some fresh lime juice on everything.<\/p>\n

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The verdict: the recipe wasn’t necessarily difficult but it was time consuming. I liked the combination of the salmon and the lentils and the sour cream was a must<\/em>. I loved the flavors it added.<\/p>\n

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Lentils can be rather boring in flavor I think. I would add some kind of herb to this recipe if I made it again, but I’m not sure what I’d add…<\/p>\n

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It was a nice one! And healthy too and if you’re doing the Slow Carb Diet this is a great recipe for you. I halved the recipe and it still made a ton<\/em>\u00a0of lentils. I will have leftover lentils for lunches for days.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What’s your favorite lentil recipe? And have you been to France?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A book I read a few months ago called “Lunch In Paris” had some really wonderful sounding recipes in it. I saved a few and I’ve tried a few. Here is another one. The book was a good read (and yet another book that inspires me to want to go to France) and my mouth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3296,45,3522,55,315,98,104,107,152,3205,201,212,231,3248,4528],"tags":[8592,2260,5196,599,5198,5199,5197,5200,4777,934,937,8711],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2784.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24094"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27133,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions\/27133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}