Table Talk » Cook With What You Have Challenge - Day 3 Salmon & Lemon-Dijon Lentils

I started the day with more baked oatmeal and fruit. Lunch was yesterday's Spicy Cellantini, Beans, and Spinach. The crushed red pepper provided a nice bite to this dish. After snowblowing the driveway for an hour or so, I had an afternoon snack of So Delicious Coconut Milk Minis (yup, I had two, maybe they are too good).

For dinner tonight, I cooked up some lentils to make lemon-dijon lentils to go with my salmon and roasted asparagus. I normally take the easy route and use canned lentils for this meal, but I've had a package of French green lentils in my pantry forever. It was time to use them! I cooked 1 cup of the lentils, the package said that would give me 2 cups of cooked lentils, which was perfect, but they cooked up to more like 3 cups, so after dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow, I still have more dried lentils and I have another serving of lemon-dijon lentils (another lunch). Maybe some lentil soup next week?

For the lemon-dijon lentils, I chopped up a few carrots that were hanging around in the fridge, the rest of the red pepper from Sunday's cake cakes, and some scallions. I usually use some red onion in the lentils, but I don't have a cut red onion, and I have a bag of scallions. These veggies get sauteed in olive oil, then tossed with the lentils. The dressing is dijon mustard (yay, I finished an open jar), lemon zest and juice, olive oil, dill, and black pepper. I added all the dressing ingredients to the mustard jar, put the cover on the jar, and shook it to combine everything. The asparagus and salmon went on a baking sheet and I drizzled a bit of the dressing on the salmon and roasted them at 400F for 8 minutes.

Even with cooking the lentils, dinner took only 30 minutes to make start to finish. And it was delicious.

Tomorrow's lunch will be Lemon-Dijon Lentils and Asparagus. (You'll start to notice a pattern, my dinner side dishes are vegan and become the next day's lunch.)

Links

Here are some links to other Cook What Have Challenge posts:

Cook What You've Got Challenge Headquarters: http://www.facebook.com/dineindiva

Garden, Grocery, Gadget Girl: http://gardengrocerygadgetgirl.blogspot.com/
It's a Simply Delicious Life: http://simplydeliciousbymartha.blogspot.com/
Tasty Tidbits: http://forgoodnesstaste.wordpress.com/
For Life!: http://forlifepersonalchef.com/
Newport Personal Chef: http://chefgal.wordpress.com/

Posted January 19, 2010 8:53 PM in Menus, Recipes

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