The other night I wanted to make a lentil salad so I googled recipes and found two for lentil salads that looked and sounded tasty, the problem was, I didn’t have all the ingredients for either one. Instead of following the recipe as laid out online I decided to use it as inspiration and here’s what I came up with.

Ingredients:

4 cups of cooked green lentils
½ yellow onion diced
1 can of diced tomato (drained)
½ green pepper chopped
3 tablespoons of parsley
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ teaspoon of cumin/cummin (crushed)
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper
2 tablespoons of lemon juice

I mixed the diced onion, tomato, green pepper, cayenne and cumin seeds together. When the lentils were cool I added them to the mixing bowl and then added the salt, pepper and lemon juice. After the salad has been chilled it’s ready to serve.

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Hmm, that sounds nice. I must try that soon. Trader Joe's sells pre-cooked brown lentils. I may use them as a substitute.

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Donnie MacLeod
Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship (PCA), Maplewood, MO
MDiv Student Covenant Theological Seminary

You filled my heart with greater joy
than others may have found
As they rejoiced at harvest time,
when grain and wine abound.Ps 4:7, Sing Psalms 2003

Sounds good. Some medication that I use mandates staying off of red meat for the 4 months that it should be consumed. This sounds like a good protein supplement, one I could keep in the 'frig.

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Mary Vanderkooi
Kale Heywott Church (KHC)
Soddo, Ethiopia

That sounds tasty. You might add fresh diced cucumber to the list of veggies to give it a little bit of a crunch.

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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC
Bothell WA
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Westminster Standards

If you haven't try using a Puy Lentil. They retain their shape and taste much better.

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John
Member
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Salt Lake City, Utah
www.christpres.net

There's a bit missing from this post. Was the improvised version good??? You don't say!!

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JennyG
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)
Fife, Scotland