French lentil soup and beer-braised red cabbage

French lentil soup and beer-braised red cabbage

Now that our kitchen is mostly assembled again, I decided to make some more new recipes tonight. I ended up deciding on two recipes from The Voluptuous Vegan. I chose recipes that only required what we had on hand, since it was cold and snowy, and I didn’t feel like going to the store. I did make a couple substitutions. The french lentil soup called for swiss chard, but I used bok choy, since we had a little bit that needed to be used. I then served the soup with some baguette that was a couple days old. Great for dipping. The red cabbage called for apple juice. Instead I used a bit of apple cider vinegar and some sliced fresh apples which were not looking too great anymore. Clare and I were very happy with the results. These recipes might be making second appearances!

French lentil soup

French lentil soup
Beer-braised red cabbage

Beer-braised red cabbage