Very Good Recipes of Lentil from Out of the Ordinary
There are 22 Lentil recipes on the blog Out of the Ordinary. (321 on all the blogs)
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French lentil & barley stew with sage, rosemary and port wine
By Out of the Ordinary
04/02/13 20:00
Beware of any post that starts, “Last night, I was trying to fall asleep and I started thinking about…” You’ve been warned! So, last night, I was trying to fall asleep and I started thinking about the Easterish theme of … Continue reading →
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Double crusted pie with roasted mushrooms, french lentils and spinach: The ur Ordinary pie
By Out of the Ordinary
03/14/13 20:38
It’s national pie day! Who knew? Not me. And yet, strangely, I made a big delicious pie, only last night. And not just any pie, but the ur Ordinary pie, the pie that started it all. I feel like the … Continue reading →
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French lentil and farro soup with spinach
By Out of the Ordinary
02/28/13 20:12
“He was standing by the edge of a small pool – no more than ten feet from side to side – in a wood. The trees grew close together and were so leafy that he could get no glimpse of … Continue reading →
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Hazelnut sage cracker fans stacked with roasted mushrooms, french lentils and chard
By Out of the Ordinary
02/15/13 20:18
Isaac gave me a card for valentine’s day. It’s got a three-dimensional heart made of red tissue paper flowers, and it says “my heart belongs to you.” Sweet. A fairly traditional valentine’s day sentiment. Nicely made card. It undid me! … Continue reading...
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Parsnip, apple, carrot and red lentil soup
By Out of the Ordinary
02/06/13 20:48
I’m still feeling a little dazed, dizzy and down from being sick the other day. (Or maybe just from being Claire, but we’ll blame it on the sickness.) Last week I was thinking a lot about discouragement and ambition and … Continue reading →
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French lentil chard soup with meyer lemon and ginger
By Out of the Ordinary
01/30/13 20:23
There’s Nothing as Trustworthy as the Ordinary Mind of Ordinary Man. So readeth a banner on the wall of Lonesome Rhodes. Lonesome himself is on the balcony, raving like a Tom Waits-voiced Tarzan about how the people listen to him, … Continue reading →
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Millet, red lentil, and sweet potato dal and pumpkin ricotta flatbreads
By Out of the Ordinary
01/17/13 19:45
Yesterday around mid-morning, I spent ten minutes sitting on the couch in my pajamas, with Clio half-on/half-off my lap. I petted her velvety ears and watched people rush by in the rain. They seemed so busy and productive, and I … Continue reading →
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Ring-shaped pie with french lentils, chard, walnuts, and butternut squash
By Out of the Ordinary
01/03/13 20:23
We had a lovely snow on Christmas eve, light and soft, the kind that makes the whole world seem clean and quiet. Snow makes Clio crazy, it brings out one of the “four formes of canine madnesse, the frantic or … Continue reading →
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Wild rice & french lentils with roasted mushrooms & butternut squash with cauliflower and carrot puréee
By Out of the Ordinary
11/16/12 20:41
We’ve had our power back for over a week now – we’ve had it back as long as we’d lost it. But I still have dreams every night that we don’t have power, and I wake up in a panic. … Continue reading →
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Walnut, roasted mushroom and french lentil soup
By Out of the Ordinary
10/20/12 16:12
We’re going to try something new, here at The Ordinary. In my imagination, actual ordinaries, in which people ate meals hundreds of years ago, had newspapers lying around the tables for patrons to read as they ate. People frequented the … Continue reading...
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Eggplant-french lentil burgers and rosemary buttermilk buns
By Out of the Ordinary
09/26/12 23:18
I’ve been so distracted lately! I just can’t sit still! I just can’t focus. I’m an important person, dammit, I’ve got a busy schedule, I’ve got important things to attend to! There’s work to be done. Important work. And only … Continue reading →
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French lentil, roasted mushroom tart with savory almond topping
By Out of the Ordinary
09/05/12 22:30
I feel strangely excited, and of course I’m going to tell you why. It has to do with the election. Wait! Wait! Don’t tune out! I’m not going to tell you about my humble beginnings and how I love America … Continue reading →
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Roasted eggplant stacked with french lentils & chard and Malcolm’s spicy sauce and Isaac’s carrots & capers
By Out of the Ordinary
08/29/12 21:31
Here at The Ordinary, we’ve developed a new secret serum to make your cares and worries melt away. After a great deal of research that involved many bottles of wine, a few dark-and-stormy-mojitoes (that’s rum, ginger beer, mint and lime), … Continue reading...
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Chard and french lentil empanadas
By Out of the Ordinary
07/12/12 21:05
“People talk of natural sympathies,” said Mr. Rochester. And we all know that he was just trying to seduce Jane Eyre, but he wasn’t wrong – people do talk of natural sympathies. Not just between people, but between colors, and … Continue reading →
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French lentils with roasted beets and walnuts
By Out of the Ordinary
06/20/12 17:08
When I was a kid, people used to say, “that was beat.” That meant it was bad. I’m not sure if this was specific to where and when I grew up, or if it was more of universal phraseology, but … Continue reading →
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Potage of quinoa w/ 4 kinds of lentils & 8 kinds of basil
By Out of the Ordinary
05/23/12 22:04
We visited Monticello last week. It’s so full of beauty, light, and grace that it made me weepy. Less than a mile away, in the visitor’s center, is a recreation of one of Jefferson’s slaves’ dwellings. It’s dark, gloomy, and … Continue reading →
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Black quinoa & beluga lentils 2 ways; And semolina buns
By Out of the Ordinary
05/11/12 18:04
We ate quinoa a few times last week, and – as I promised the boys – we turned into Incan super heroes. (It is a “superfood,” you know!). Oh the adventures we had! I’d love to tell you about them, … Continue reading →
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Roasted french lentils
By Out of the Ordinary
04/18/12 03:24
You know how I mentioned a dream I had the other night – the one about roasted chickpeas? Well, I didn’t tell you the whole story. I lay awake for hours, unable to fall asleep again. And in that blurry, … Continue reading →
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Vegetable, french lentil, potato ragout
By Out of the Ordinary
04/06/12 22:54
In which Claire goes on and on about The Two of Us, part 2 of 2. Did I mention that we recently watched the Claude Berri film, The Two of Us? Oh, I did? I’ve told you that I loved … Continue reading →
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Black forbidden rice, black beluga lentils, roasted golden beets
By Out of the Ordinary
03/29/12 19:44
Sometimes, in life, you search for something. You look in all of the ordinary places your path takes you. You don’t find it. It becomes a quest. You go farther afield, you make special trips, just to find this thing. … Continue reading →
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