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ham and lentils

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caribougrrl:
I don't make ham very often, because it's difficult to come by good ham around here.  But the place where I buy local goat and lamb had some local, locally cured, bone-in smoked shoulder available recently.  So I did a ham.

I will confess that I don't use my own recipe.  I roughly follow this ginger beer and tangerine braised, honey-mustard glazed recipe:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/864635/ginger-beer-and-tangerine-glazed-ham
(yesterday it was cara cara rather than tangerine, with additional slice fresh ginger in the pot)

anyway, when I was deciding what to serve with it, I notice this "goes well with" suggestion on the site for puy lentils braised in the pot liquor from the ham and thought, well, what the heck, why not give it a try:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/864644/chilli-and-tangerine-braised-lentils
I substituted sweet red pepper for the carrot, shallots for the onion, and didn't bother with the creme fraiche or the additional orange juice/rind.

did I mention I make a good ham?  well, listen to this, the lentils were the best part of the meal, hands down.




I think you could do a pretty good vegetarian version with part veg stock and part ginger beer, orange zest, grated ginger and a bit of liquid smoke in lieu of the ham cooking liquid.

diablita:
the lentils sound tasty; I love lentils.  Glad your meal turned out so well.

And I always forget that cara cara is a citrus fruit as well.  For a moment I was confused.

caribougrrl:
:)

the only reason I was moved to buy cara cara oranges was because of a fantastic Nat'l Geo documentary on the striated caracaras of the Falkland Islands I saw years ago.


some of the footage (the best part starts at 17 seconds, when the birds are destroying the flim crew's camp):
Flying Devils

diablita:
that's seriously fabulous!

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