3 piquillo pepper salad toasted garlic Recipes

garlic clove, salt, blanched almonds (3 oz), toasted and cooled, water, extra-virgin olive oil, sherry vinegar, hot pepper sauce such as tabasco, black pepper, spanish piquillo peppers*, rinsed, drained, and patted dry, head romaine (1 lb), outer leaves discarded and head cut crosswise into 1/4-inch slices (8 cups), sliced serrano ham

green lentils picked over, bay leaf, kosher salt, olive oil, garlic thinly sliced, sherry vinegar, piquillo peppers torn into 1/2 inch wide strips, flat-leaf parsley roughly chopped