Recipe Exchange- Lentil Soup

Lentil Soup

Cook 1 cup of Lentils in 4 cups boiling water that is salted/flavored with chicken bullion
While the lentils cook, add in 2 carrots and 1 onion, chopped
Throw in a bunch of spices -- I always pick some thyme, sage, rosemary, and usually cayenne pepper/paprika/chili flakes for spicyness
Cook everything in the pot until it is soft
Use an immersion blender to turn it into a thick soup
Serve with lemon juice

Pate de Pomme de Terre (Potato pie)
Make pie crust:
put 2 1/2 cups of flour in a bowl, and add in a teaspoon of salt
Cut in a cup of cold butter. Once you have incorporated as much as you can with your fork/knife/whatever you are using, get in there with your hands and squeeze the butter until it looks like little pellets.
Add in a couple tablespoons of water (6-8) until the dough clumps together into a ball but is not too sticky
put it in the fridge until you are ready to use it. The longer you wait, the better it tastes
Roll out 2/3 or so of your pie crust and put it in the bottom of a pie dish. The deeper the better
Fill the pie crust with sliced potatoes and onions. Put on salt and pepper every so often
Use the rest of the pie crust to cover the top
Cut a couple air slits in the top, and cook at 350 for about an hour, or until the potatoes are soft and the crust is golden-ish
When it is done, cut as large a hole as you can in the crust. Make sure to try and keep it intact
Spread yogurt or sour cream pretty thick as far as you can. The impossible goal is to cover the entire pie.
Put the piece of crust you cut out back on and serve it hot with extra sour cream/yogurt

Guacamole
Take an avocado or two, cut it into pieces, and mash it up
Cut up a tomato into very small pieces
cut up a shallot or half a small onion into very small pieces
Mix everything together, and add some lemon juice and (if you want) some spices
Eat with tortillas (which are also easy to make at home)


I hope you like these random recipe! The first two are from my mom, who is French. The last one is just for kicks. I don't really know who you are, but you're friends with Caitlin so you can't be that bad -- just kidding!! I'm sure you're awesome. The surest sign is that you would participate in/set up something like this

Thanks for the opportunity to share my favorite recipes! I hope you will try them out sometime.

Manon