Dinner: Glazed Carrots, Braised Lentils & Olive Oil Dumplings

For tonight's dinner I selected:

Balsamic-Garlic Glazed Carrots
Braised Lentils with Parsnips
Griddled Olive Oil Salt Rolls (which I turned into dumplings)

Ingredients

Balsamic-Garlic Carrots - balsamic vinegar, carrots, minced garlic

Braised Lentils - my dish included red lentils, olive oil, chopped sweet onion, chopped fresh mushrooms, diced celery, diced parsnips, sherry, water, bay leaf, salt & pepper

Griddled Olive Oil Salt Rolls - flour, olive oil, baking powder, salt + water


Good stuff. I didn't see the "cup of water" in the olive oil rolls recipe and I thought it was dry so I added more olive oil. Turns out I was missing the water part of the recipe, which was not in the ingredient list but instead in the instructions. I totally missed it. I shaped the dough as best I could into patties and put them to grill in a pan of hot olive oil, but I could quickly see that wasn't ever going to happen. So, I gingerly picked them up and put them into the lentil mixture as dumplings. Quite good - the olive oil flavor. Love it.

Yankee Pot Roast

Made the recipe for Yankee Pot Roast that I found here. It's cooking on the stove now, actually, and it smells fantastic. I used a Pinot Noir and that smell mixed with the thyme and the beef broth is incredible.

I also put in a handful of "baby" carrots (not the real thing but the ones made from adult carrots), two parsnips and three celery ribs. I had some leftover minced onion from meatloaf yesterday, so I put a tablespoon of that in. I also put in a good healthy teaspoon of minced garlic.