two perfect summer recipes

2 hot 2 cook

It is officially 2 hot 2 cook in our house—maybe not in LA at large, but our apartment has a tiny air conditioner which is both loud and ineffective, so. Instead we open windows and adjust fans for maximum airflow, and during the hottest part of the day, we watch John le Carre adaptations. And at night, it’s the most perfect, unreal, beautiful temperature outside. One nice thing about California is the heat doesn’t stick for the most part—at some point in the evening, it gets blown away. But still, I’m not one to turn on an oven if I can help it, and sometimes even making a stir fry is too much.

So, here you go: Two hot-weather recipes, which also happen to be vegan, gluten free, and free of processed sugar, made many, many times by yours truly, and approved of far and wide.

This iteration: lentils, scallion, red pepper, dill, and mint