3 warm lentil salad beets goat cheese Recipes

beets, peeled and cut into 1-inch-thick wedges, extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling, kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, hazelnuts , walnuts or pecans, finely chopped, log goat cheese, leftover lentils from salmon with lentils, slab or thick-cut bacon, sliced, shallot, minced, apple cider vinegar, sugar, frisee , torn, or 6 cups baby greens

roasted beets , recipe follows, spanish onion, peeled and quartered, carrot, quartered, stalk celery, quartered, fresh or dried bay leaf, fresh thyme, chicken stock, dried french green lentils, salt and freshly ground pepper, olive oil, slab bacon, diced, garlic, finely chopped, carrot, peeled and finely diced, chopped fresh thyme leaves, sherry vinegar, frisee or mixed greens, sherry vinaigrette , recipe follows, goat cheese, french bread , for serving, beets (red or gold), scrubbed, leaves trimmed, olive oil, sherry vinegar, dijon mustard, chopped fresh thyme, salt, freshly ground pepper, olive oil