I am playing a little catch-up from last week this morning. Lentil stew was our Saturday night dinner and on Sunday we were having a family party where we ate tacos and fancy little cakes. Our daughter-in-law’s sister is a very talented cake and all things sweet maker and has been featured and won in competitions on Food Network. She made these dazzling heart shaped individual cakes for her niece’s (our granddaughter’s) 18th birthday.

Unfortunately I could not eat one because of gluten but I did try some candied citrus peel and a glazed almond that were part of the decoration and that was yummy and everyone said the cakes were great too.

Back to the lentil stew—We used Butterball turkey sausage instead of our usual Hillshire Farm and I found them to be a little sweet. Combine that with the carrot in the stew and the whole thing was sweeter than I like. I also put in some onion, garlic, and celery and scattered the top with broken up tortilla chips. Next time we have this I will go back to the Hillshire Farm turkey sausage and use a smaller carrot.