Saturday Night Lentils

As we were walking down the mountain yesterday afternoon after being turned back, again, from the Arnigrat, the discussion turned naturally to what to have for dinner once we got home. All that walking through fog and clouds more or less dictated that it would be some form of comfort food. We spent a couple hundred meters of descent deciding that the form would be split pea soup.

Of course the Migros at the train station didn't have dried peas.

We had lentil soup/stew with merguez instead.

I started by cooking diced onion, garlic, and carrot in olive oil until the onions softened, added some diced potato and cooked another couple minutes, then added the lentils, a couple bay leaves, some white wine, a boullion cube, and water. After cooking for 15 minutes or so, I added some spinach and the merguez sausages and simmered more until the sausage was cooked through (another 15 minutes). [all veggies from biokiste]

This was quite nice. It would have been better with celery (there's a good match between celery and lentils somehow), but we didn't have any in the house.

We also had a green salad and some good rye bread.