{"id":396,"date":"2009-02-25T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=396"},"modified":"2009-02-25T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T06:02:20","slug":"lentil-soup-beet-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2009\/lentil-soup-beet-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Lentil Soup + Beet Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTonight for dinner I made a beet salad and French Lentil Soup with Tarragon and Thyme. It was all yummy so I took a picture since I want to try posting more about recipes I’ve tried, etc. on here.<\/p>\n

The idea for the salad came after I ate at Andaluca<\/a> for my birthday on Saturday. The “Green Bean” salad there had roasted carrots, beets, goat cheese, marcona almonds, and a sherry shallot vinaigrette. I had been wanting to “get into” beets for a while now, and the salad convinced me that I should give them a try.<\/p>\n

To make my beet salad (I didn’t use a recipe for it), I first roasted two beets. I hadn’t done this before and roasting things is pretty new to me. Per the advice of my chef friend Troy, I wrapped the beets in foil and drizzled some olive oil and salt and pepper on them. I also roasted some green beans.<\/p>\n

For the dressing I just mixed together a little olive oil, black pepper, red wine vinegar, and balsamic vinegar. I also chopped up some shallots and threw those in.<\/p>\n

One thing that the Andaluca salad had that I felt mine was lacking was something like the goat cheese. Since I wanted to make this all vegan, I intentionally didn’t buy goat cheese. And then I realized that I had some vegan cream cheese<\/a>. I heated that up and added it to the salad — and it was very goat cheese like!<\/p>\n

The lentil soup recipe came from my favorite cookbook: Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook<\/i><\/a>. I would have never thought to make this soup (I don’t really like tarragon) but my friend Shannon<\/a> highly recommended it. And to my surprise — it was great.<\/p>\n

Overall, I think I can definitely improve on the salad. I forgot that the Andaluca one had nuts in it so I should’ve included candied walnuts or something. I also want to work on refining the dressing to be perfect. And next time I doubt i’ll include the cream cheese — if anything I might add some pieces of tofu.<\/p>\n

So there you have it — another yummy vegan dinner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight for dinner I made a beet salad and French Lentil Soup with Tarragon and Thyme. It was all yummy so I took a picture since I want to try posting more about recipes I’ve tried, etc. on here. The idea for the salad came after I ate at Andaluca for my birthday on Saturday. … Continue reading Lentil Soup + Beet Salad<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[128],"tags":[130,129,132,131],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}