I did make a few changes, but not too many as I was feeling singularly uninspired. I'm pretty sure that the chile pepper I bought was an Anaheim as required in the recipe, but Stop and Shop saw no need to label the different chile peppers and it's a pepper I rarely use, so I can't say for sure. (I won't go into why I was in Stop and Shop; it was a very long day.) I couldn't find the green lentils required by the recipe at Stop and Shop either. In fact, I couldn't find any lentils at all, although lentil soup in a can was plentiful. (Why would you want to cook your own lentils, after all? So much easier to let factories do it for you.) Fortunately, I had red lentils in quantity at home. Likewise, I was unable to find bunches of fresh spinach in the produce section, but they had salad spinach in a bag so I used that. I also forgot the lemon juice at the end, which would have brightened up the dish significantly. My only excuse is that Stop and Shop ate my brain. At any rate, the dish was still tasty and very, very filling. It didn't have as much sauce as we kind of expected, but that didn't really inhibit our enjoyment.
(serves 4; approx. $3.28/serving)
Recipe Source: Wise, Victoria Jenayan. The Armenian Table. St. Martin's Press, New York, 2004 pp. 144-5.
source: http://www.fearlesskitchen.com/2008/12/recipe-lamb-ragout-with-spinach-chile-pepper-and-lentils.html