Comfort Food

Well as you may have guessed...Petite Fille finally arrived!  Long awaited for and with all the due drama of a little girl making a grand entrance into this world...she is here, she is amazing...and I am in-love!  

...............Bien sur!

So since then, exactly three weeks ago, I have been searching for the re-boot button somewhere in my brain that causes me to think, be inspired, and write....and as it turns out, the jump start to that was to faire la cuisine!

So yesterday--on a bone-chilling day here in Normandy, compelled by the extreme need to be cozy, creative and consume comfort food--I made a fabulous, albeit tres simple one-pot dish of lentils and duck.... so here it is!  Give it a try--Bon Appétit!

PS--please forgive the mistakes or inaccuracies--"baby-brain" is in full swing! 

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 Duck with Green Lentils

• 2 tbs. Olive Oil
• 1 large carrot
• 1 rib celery
• 1 medium onion
• 1 medium leek
• chopped parsley
• 4-6 duck legs or thighs
• 1 cup dry white wine
• 1 bay leaf
• Fresh thyme
• 2 cups green lentils
• 3 cups stock

Sprinkle duck legs with salt, pepper and thyme. Brown duck with one tbs. oil  in large cast iron 'dutch-oven'....until skin is evenly brown and then remove from pan and set aside.

Dice vegetables and cook all together in pot with remaining olive oil, allowing vegetables to 'sweat' but not fully cook.

Rinse and add lentils to pot and add white wine and stock and parsley.

Place duck legs in pot and cover.

Cook for 1.5 hours at 350 f. /175 c. degrees.

Serve with crusty bread.