January recipe list [cookbook challenge]

January is going to be marked by several things:

• B1 (housemate) is going to be away in the coming week
• weather is cooler than usual, not quite so hot
• high likelihood of being asked to change diet following coronary calcium scoring
• garden is pumping out leaves (rocket, silverbeet, spinach) and various vegies (onions, could probably get tomatoes) plus eggs from the chooks
• limited trips out to the shop because of increased COVID cases
• leftovers from Christmas/New Year: cheese, antipasto, sour cream
• freezer remains: filo pastry, shortcrust pastry, a whole duck, assorted frozen fruit, breadcrumbs
• preserves: pickles, olives, jams & fruits that need eating

Some thoughts:
- buy a whole raw chicken and boil to make stock and chicken meat (freeze breast meat)
- make small pastries/pasties in filo/shortbread and freeze them for a quick meal
- salads, salads, salads!
- from garden: rocket, lettuces, parsley, pea sprouts, spinach/silverbeets/salad leaves, tomatoes (sometimes), onions, shallots (onions), basil
- from pantry: lentils (black, yellow), butter beans, buckwheat, chickpeas, black beans, split peas(?), rice, pasta

( way more than three recipes, but it'll give me options )

recipe #1 of 3 for January [cookbook_challenge]

And to start off my cookbook_challenge

Pumpkin & Lentil Salad from Marie Claire: Comfort (p125)



( Pumpkin & Lentil Salad )

One down for January, two to go!