{"id":477,"date":"2009-02-02T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2009-02-02T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:05:06","slug":"lentil-soup-with-italian-sausage-and-escarole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Lentil Soup with Italian Sausage and Escarole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s only the first day and I’m already off the schedule…
\nI decided to flip Monday and Tuesday, so we had this lentil soup<\/a> for dinner tonight. It was absolutely wonderful; all four of us loved it. I served it with Baby Bam croutons (cut your favorite bread into appropriately-sized chunks, drizzle with melted butter and\/or olive oil to lightly coat, sprinkle with Baby Bam<\/a>, bake at 250 degrees – 20 to 30 minutes – until crunchy.)
\nNote: If you live in Austin: Escarole is difficult to find at most stores. My in-laws’ farm<\/a> grows it (seasonally), or it is also available at Central Market. I haven’t seen it elsewhere.
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\nLentil Soup with Italian Sausage and Escarole<\/strong><\/a>
\nSome things came up early in the day today and I knew that I would be getting home (and hence, starting dinner) later than I planned, so I prepped the veggies and sliced the sausage ahead of time and put them in containers in the fridge. I also pulled all of the other non-perishable ingredients (stock, vinegar, olive oil, bay leaf, etc.) out and set them by the stove, so that when I got home, I would be able to get right to work. So, from the time that I started to the time we hit the table, this dish took about 35 minutes. Perfect!
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\nBrowning the Italian sausage meatballs
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\nSauteeing the vegetables (my kitchen smelled AMAZING when I threw this in the pan)
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\nChopped escarole, waiting for its turn in the soup
\nI HIGHLY recommend this recipe. Girl ended up coming home sick today, and will likely still be sick tomorrow, so I plan to use the leftover 1\/2 head of escarole (the head that I bought was HUGE) to make her some escarole and meatball soup. We’ll plan to have the salmon for dinner tomorrow and fish makes her miserable. Normally, I would just tell her to “get over it”, but since she’s not feeling well, I’ll probably give her a pass…stay tuned for that recipe.
\nIn case you haven’t used lentils before, this is what they look like before they’re cooked; they’re VERY small.
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\nLentils are VERY easy to cook, are VERY inexpensive, have a mild flavor that nicely absorbs the taste of other ingedients in the dish. Lentils are LOADED with iron, fiber and folic acid, so they are a WONDERFUL food for pregnant women. If you haven’t tried them before, give them a go.
\nHere are two other great recipes to get you started:
\nLentils with Bulgur and Onions<\/a> from Gourmet magazine
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\nSalmon with Lentils and Mustard-Herb Butter<\/a>, also from Gourmet magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s only the first day and I’m already off the schedule… I decided to flip Monday and Tuesday, so we had this lentil soup for dinner tonight. It was absolutely wonderful; all four of us loved it. I served it with Baby Bam croutons (cut your favorite bread into appropriately-sized chunks, drizzle with melted … Continue reading “Lentil Soup with Italian Sausage and Escarole”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrees","category-favorites","category-soups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}