If you've got carrots, celery and onions in your fridge, you're well on your way to making one of my latest culinary endeavors: lentils. Somewhere along the way, it seems lentils have gotten a bad rap. But trust me - if done the right way, they're downright delicious. Not to mention inexpensive, pretty healthy ( I think) and oddly, people seem to find it rather fancy. Sounds fit for a "Bon Vivant on a Budget" to me.
Here's a recipe for
lentils with pork belly from my new Cooking Channel fave,
Laura Calder. Watching her show "French Food at Home" makes me extremely happy and dream of spending my days in her pretty blue-tiled kitchen, making tarte tatin and coq au vin in a flowered dress. Doesn't she look happy?!
