I love lentils and I have made the lentil salad from Dorie’s book many times. I brought back a bag of puy lentils from France last summer as we do not have this kind in the stores here. We do not have goat cheese available in our store, only in a specialty stores. This was the only kind they had:
It was very good. I could not find any good carrots so I did not use them and I only had yellow onion. All the same the salad looks and tasted great. Full of iron and good vitamins.
I got fresh rhubarb from my friend’s house, the one in my garden is too small and I only have like one plant. My friend came over and we had this great tart together.
I made the tart shell a few days before I assembled the tart and I put it in the freezer. I was a bit skeptical when I read that the tart shell would be baked for close to an hour and a half. As it turned out it was not a problem.
I also got a visit from my sister and her family so all together we were 12 eating the tart and needless to say there was nothing left. In my opinion this tart is too time consuming. I liked the Rhubarb Upside Down Brown Sugar Cake on pages 24-25 better.
This was an easy make since I used canned chick peas. It only took about 20 min. Everything in the food processor and voilá.
I had to add more liquid and added some very cold water, water from the can and a bit more lemon juice. If I were to do this again I would add more tahini and more lemon juice, I found this to be a bit blend.
This was not hard to make but I was put off with the one hour chilling time. I could not eye ball the amount of dough per mold so the last madeleines had more chocolate than the first ones. Not a problem. As can be seen for the first photo I was a bit messy. They were just lovely, my DH prefers them with only butter and vanilla but I like the variety.
This was an easy one. I used fresh blue berries and a few strawberries. I´m sure you can use frozen as well since it is a gratin.
I used a 9 inch baking dish since I do not have gratin dishes for 5 people only 3.
I served this dish warm and the verdict was: “This is like eating warm jam”. I served it the day after cold and still the verdict was this is like jam. I liked it, but will not be making it again.
I love making bread but it is so time consuming that I never give me time. Another reason I do not make my own bread: http://www.davidlebovitz.com/reykjavik-bakeries-iceland/. I go to Brauð og Co if I´m not going to my local bakery.
I bought a salad blend and used it in the bread I did not bother with buying all the stuff David recommended. To me this bread was too dry probably because I did not use bread flour but all purpose flour and whole flour. This is the first time I use a starter and like in the no knead bread David uses so little of dry yeast, I really like that.
Not the best picture I know.
I was in a hurry so I did not make the croutons and the eggs were hard boiled. I had this salad as a starter for dinner and then I had the galettes from Davids book but with whole flour instead of buckwheat (p. 135). It was a very French style dinner. I took the rest of the salad to work and had for lunch. It was very tasty and good.
