- uses leftovers
- contains no meat
- is for a soup
- is for a dessert
- contains corn
- was found in a magazine
- you've never tried
- is your favorite recipe
- can be made in a crock pot or slow cooker
- is for an appetizer
- contains cheese
- is for bread or muffins
- contains fruit
- is for a dip
- is really bad for you-but tastes soooo good
Roast Tomato and Red Lentil Soup
IngredientsRecipe
- 1kg tomatoes.
- 1 litre good vegetable stock
- 180g red lentils
- 1 medium onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil (or just a teaspoon works)
- 2 tsp oregano
- salt, pepper
- Halve the tomatoes, arrange in a single layer on a deep sided baking dish, roast in a moderate (160C) oven for 40 minutes. They should be well done, but not dried.
- Gently fry the onion & garlic in the oil until onion is golden. Add the lentils (washed & picked over as needed), stock, tomatoes and oregano. Also add any juices from the bottom of the tomato baking dish. You can slip the skins off the tomatoes at this point if you so desire.
- Simmer until lentils are done - these are the type that go to mush, not the whole ones. Run through a blender to get a smoothish texture. Thin down with water or more veggie stock to your desired consistency, and add salt and pepper to taste.
The format was sender's choice, and my partners didn't specify whether they wanted cards or sheets or anything, so I ended up printing on to letter-sized paper (by that I mean I printed on A4 and tried to trim it down to letter dimensions...! See this wiki article for more on North American vs the International standard!)
For one thing, I don't know what a standard recipe card size is, and also my recipes were quite long, and there were many of them. Still, I got out some coloured paper and decorated them best I could. Aside from the tomatoes, I also made some more vegetables.... including eggplant, carrot, lemon, peas and spinach amongst others!
It was fun! So much fun, in fact, that I got carried away and decided to make a tomato magnet too... here it is!
It is slightly raised & filled with pillow material. It was the first time I had used blanket stitch, and it works well to seal the edges of flat felt objects! :) The magnetic strip was adhesive but I found that I also had to stitch it on to really stick (luckily it is thin, and the needle pierces it easily).
In the meantime, I need to improve my photography & digital editing skills somewhat!
- Related post: Incoming: vegan recipes
2 comments:
That soup looks delicious, especially here where it's 15 degrees out. Er, that is, -9. It'll be a good exercise in converting grams to cups & ounces, not unlike the A4 to 8.5x11. What's up with all that? Sheesh.
Hi Jen, I'm so excited to read that you liked my soup. Love the magnets.
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