Day 21

So today I made Lentil Soup, this shouldn't really count, but I figured relaying the recipe, which is pretty good, to other people would work out pretty well


In this mix, because I accidently deleted the picture that had everything in it. There are two cut up carrot, peeled, two solid stalks of celery, cut evenly, and a few springs of celery heads roughly cut and half of a good sized onion, cut thin.

I really wish I had a picture of the lentils soaking, which was in the first picture, but just to say they should be soaking until they are soft, which is somewhere around 45 minutes or so.


The way that Phil taught me to do it is to accompany the soup with noodles of some kind, but I had a lot of rice and decided to use my rice cooker.

Now, you should have a big pot and coat the bottom of it with olive oil and let it get hot. While that is going bust open your tomato paste to get it ready, and toss in your onions to get them clear. Then add the rest of the veggies and healthy dollop of the tomato paste.


With all of it together it should look like this. You can salt and pepper here if you please.

Let all of this cook for a few minutes to co-mingle together and then add in the lentils.


Like dat. Then you take your carton of broth, in my case chicken and dump it all in there.


Like dis. Then keep up the heat until it boils up then lower it down to med-low or low to keep a simmer going. Add a bunch of salt and pepper here if you haven't and stir it around.

Looking something like this when it hits the simmer, you need to cover it and let it cook for a while.

You basically want to cook it until the lentils go completely soft as do the rest of the veggies, just keep an eye on it and then line the bottom of a bowl with rice and plop on some soup.
It may look like mushy gross stuff but its pretty fucking good. And you'll have lunch for a solid week.

I said that I would post the play today, but, well, shit, I'm still feeling weird about it, so it'll go up tomorrow. I promise, for reals.