Dinner time...

Well, I have to say that my self set challenge to make a new recipe each week was a little neglected last week, unless you consider discovering that you can make bread with Feijoa cereal that no-one likes a new recipe.

I had an urgent job come up, which was a challenge as it had a tight deadline, and thus left little room for anything else, much to the kids frustration.

But, it is done, and my attention can turn to cooking once more, and so, a new recipe for dinner tonight.

You would think that with a cupboard and part of a bookcase of recipe books, that the new recipe would be from one of those books. However, I had decided that we should eat lentils

occasionally, and set out to find a palatable way to present them.

I came across this recipe for Sausages with Lentils and Vegetables while looking at the Taste website. It is very useful when you have ingredients or an idea of what you want to cook, but need a recipe or more inspiration.

Then, today a trip to Nosh (to buy a birthday present for Sandra), where I found some Merguez sausages. These are a lightly spiced Lamb and Pork sausage. So, tonight's dinner came together

nicely, using tinned brown lentils (tinned because the recipe said so, not because I couldn't be bothered cooking them for 40 minutes).

Also at Nosh, I sampled a gorgeous Kaimai Brie, which was oozingly ripe. This we had spread on fresh bread (I cheated and bought it at Nosh too). The kids were appalled when Daryl explained that the white around the cheese was in fact mould, but got over it and ate it anyway.

So, the verdict? Would we have the Sausages with Lentils and Vegetables again? Definitely.