I love lentils. Soup, casseroles, salads. Whatever.

Last night I took a really good lentil salad with a redwine vinegrette to a potluck dinner. It had just enough red tomatoes (peeled, seeded, & chopped) and scallions and parsley to really look good, and arranged in a nice white oval serving dish for contrast. It's a combination of recipes from Emeril and Alton Brown - with garlic, shallots, carrots, onion, celery and some other stuff. Someday I have to write it down the way I make it cause every time I sort of merge the two recipes together and probably do it a little differently each time as well.

Jeeze - You would have thought it was rat stew or something. I don't think anyone even tried it. Sad that adults can't venture out of their own personal comfort zones to try even a bite of something new. Oh well, more for me.