Last week the JP Crows gathered to spend some much needed time in the kitchen and to celebrate our friend Robin’s Birthday. Robin brought forth an interesting ingredient to the dinner planning discussion: Black Beluga Lentils. None of us had cooked with them before so we scoured the internet and decided on this recipe:
By reading the ingredients and quantities you can tell that this salad is
PACKED full of flavor. Start with a smaller portion of feta and herbs and keep adding until you have reached your desired taste. Also keep in mind the longer it sits the more the flavors meld! The black lentils were fun to experiment with, they definitely hold their texture in cooking.
The next star in our Adventurous Dinner Menu was a soup that I have been wanting to make for some time, and now that i’m equipped with an immersion blender, the timing seemed perfect.
Sweet Potato, Chipotle and Apple Soup
Unfortunately I was missing one of the main ingredients (chipotle) but made up for it with some red pepper flakes and cayenne. To take the savory route I passed on the cinnamon-sugar tortilla chips and went for sliced baguette and shredded gruyere (apples and gruyere yum!)
We ended the evening with some Birthday cupcakes compliments of VBar, hot whiskey drinks and some games (crow favorites are rummy, rummikub and our newest addition- phase 10).
