New recipe, February 17, 2025

French Lentil and Vegetable Soup from Food and Wine. This is brimming with good things, including the lentils, onion, leek, garlic, celery, carrot, tomato paste and thyme. It is pleasant, but seemed a little flat. It calls for a couple tbsp of red wine or red wine vinegar—we would use the vinegar next time to boost the acidity a bit. It might also benefit from from lemon juice, but we still felt it needed something else. We added a small amount of harissa, so as not to dominate the dish but give it a little spice, which worked well. We give the original recipe a 3. It moves up to a 4 with the harissa.