{"id":972,"date":"2010-03-10T20:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T01:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:12:40","slug":"lentil-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Lentil Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fiona'sSoup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>For years I\u2019ve assumed that there was an etymological connection between \u201clentil\u201d and Lent.\u201d You have no idea how disappointed I am to have discovered recently that it is nonexistent. It seemed so perfectly and seasonally appropriate. Sigh. Well, more on that later. In the meantime, here is my favorite recipe for \u201cLent\u201d-il soup, from Mollie Katzen\u2019s Moosewood Cookbook<\/em>, modified somewhat by me:<\/p>\n

Pick over & rinse 3 cups raw lentils. Simmer them in 7 cups water or stock (I use veggie bouillon), on the stovetop or in a crock pot, until lentils are almost tender.<\/p>\n

Saute in olive oil 2 tsp. fresh minced garlic, 1 cup chopped onion, 1 cup minced celery, and 1 cup chopped carrots, until almost tender. Add to almost-tender lentils along with 1-1\/2 cups chopped fresh tomatoes or, lacking those, fire-roasted canned tomatoes; 2 T dry red wine; 2 T lemon juice; 1-1\/2 T molasses or brown sugar; 1 T wine vinegar; 1 T capers. Simmer for a while longer until lentils and veggies are tender. Add black pepper and salt to taste.<\/p>\n

This is even better the next day, after flavors have blended.<\/p>\n

\"CakeBerries2\"<\/a>Aunt Mary<\/p>\n

\"CakePink2\"<\/a>Lisa<\/p>\n


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For years I\u2019ve assumed that there was an etymological connection between \u201clentil\u201d and Lent.\u201d You have no idea how disappointed I am to have discovered recently that it is nonexistent. It seemed so perfectly and seasonally appropriate. Sigh. Well, more on that later. In the meantime, here is my favorite recipe for \u201cLent\u201d-il soup, fromRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,17,50,3],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-food","tag-penink","tag-rabbit","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}