Day 1: Spanish lentils from a jar with potatoes and chorizo

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This is Day 1 of my own pantry challenge, seven days of dinners from the jars on my shelves. Can what you eat and eat what you can ;)

First up: a jar of my home-canned Spanish lentils, canned on September 18.

Jar of home-canned Spanish lentils labeled Spanish lentils 18/9-2026 on a wooden table

Tonight's dinner

I opened the jar, tipped the lentils into a pot and heated them up. That's really all the cooking the lentils needed, because all the work was done back in September ;) You'll find the recipe in my post on canning Spanish-style lentils.

Spanish lentils with onion, carrot and peppers heating in a pot with a white spoon

While they heated, I boiled some potatoes and fried slices of Spanish chorizo. I served the lentils with the potatoes, put the chorizo on top, added a sprig of parsley and, of course, some crusty bread on the side.