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lentil soup
June 2009 
yellow lentil soup
Posted on Nov 3rd, 2008
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tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
Feeling a little funky today, just a bit of a cold and tummy not feeling well, so soup seemed like just the thing. Sauted celery, carrot, onion and garlic, added cumin and oregano, the yellow lentils, half a serrano pepper chopped up and water and cooked them for about 40 minutes, then added parsley and salt. Yummy stuff. Drizzled some lemon over it just before eating - fabulous, cheap, pretty, and I almost feel better now.
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thank you for posting this. I need to learn to cook properly, but I'm resistant to recipe books. your real world recipe and photos are just what I need. :-) I hope you feel way better soon.
xoxoxox
-d
I'm trying to plan a gluten-free, dairy free (vegan) thanksgiving dinner. I'm tentatively going with curried butternut squash soup with hot pepitas floated in at the end (they make a lovely sizzle), shepherd's pie, cranberries (Krissy is making those), probably a big salad…but I'm still looking for ideas.
I have lots of great veggie cookbooks. if I run across any autumnal ideas, I'll send em or post em. your lentil soup recipe sounds amazing. thanks for sharing it.
I read this a couple hours ago and now I simply must have some soup today!
Yum
Laura, I would LOVE ideas. Day to day I just eat foods whole - at the most a salad or a soup made of them - but for festive meals that seems a little lame. “Here's a cucumber, enjoy.” But leaving out gluten is very challenging for vegan food. I have cookbooks too and I search out recipes online, and I feel like I'\ve combined too many prohibited categories now. The weirdest thing about it all is, I always ate really anything, had no issues, and now I'm in this weird world of not being able to eat stuff. The vegan part is optional but chosen, the rest is a result of food making me sick, plus now cute undies with latex in them make me break out horribly also and that seems totally unfair. I've become one of those people I was always disdainful of, the picky, fussy people who can't just live in the world. People who don't eat things or wear cute underwear. So I'm improvising and open to all suggestions.
Joe, I'm so glad I could inspire soup-lust! Soup is good food.
I just got this awesome book today - if anyone else is interested, most of the recipes look really really good. I'm salivating over the spinach and pear salad - it has maple candied walnuts and a raspberry vinaigrette, mmm - and the kale with peanut sauce except I think I might substitute swiss chard, and the veggie burgers sound good, and and and…
Dawn, I balance you out in the universe. I love cookbooks as much as I love just making food up as I go and I've been in cookbook withdrawal a little lately since most vegan cookbooks use quite a lot of flour and wheat and most gluten-free cookbooks include meat and dairy products. I'm a little sad that there are no pictures of the food, but I'll take some photos as I make things
You and Farland, I think, come from the same school of soup making. She made soup for synonym for light's (right, Dawn?) election party and when I heard of this the bowl above was exactly what I imagined.
Soup of the evening, beautiful, beautiful soup…!
yes - you are correct Siona. and that soup IS beautiful. Farland's soup and Jeannie's soup could be twins. Farland makes the soup for all the parties at my house now. :-) if Jeannie lived closer, maybe we could have 2 kinds of soup at each party.
my job has become chopping up fruits and veggies and putting out bows of nuts and chocolate for the parties. :-)
ah– I could so use a bowl of Jeannie's or Farland's soup right now– 4:15am at work on a freezing, snow covered night.
instead I just keep listeing to will.i.am's yes we can song. warming the insides and fortifying me in another way.
Yummy