Lentil Barley Soup
Originally uploaded by SarahorNicholas.
My good friend Dylan asked to model our dinner last night. He joins us about a once a week so you should see his beautiful face pretty often.
We've known each other FOREVER (notice the T-shirt) and very few people understand me as well as he does. Our relationship was love/hate for several years but now is all love with a only a dash of mild annoyance at times. ;)
EDITED TO ADD RECIPE
1 medium onion, diced
3 stalks celery, chopped
2-3 carrots, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1&1/2 cups french green lentils
3/4 cup pearled barley
3 vegetarian boullion cubes or 3 cups vegetable broth
1 TBSP cumin
1/2 TBSP turmeric
7 cups water (3 if using broth and not cubes)
14 oz can of crushed tomatoes
In a large pot, heat 2 TBSP olive oil over medium heat.
Add onion, celery, and carrots and saute for about 5 minutes. Add garlic and saute for about 30 seconds. Season with salt and pepper - be sparing with salt as boullion cubes and broth have lots.
Add water and boullion cubes, raise heat to high, and bring to a boil.
Add barley, lentils, turmeric, and cumin.
Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Add can of crushed tomatoes.
Allow soup to simmer a little longer, until lentils are soft. Season to taste.
Serve with bread.
6 comments:
Hey Stew- don't most of your friendships/relationships start as love/hate?
I can think of numerous people from college that began friendships with you that way ;)
Why are you not giving the recipes?
There wasn't really a recipe for this. I just looked at a few recipes for similar soups and then put this together based loosely on those.
Here's the recipe - as I remember it.
1 medium onion, diced
3 stalks celery, chopped
2-3 carrots, chopped
2 gloves garlic, minced
1&1/2 cups french green lentils
3/4 cup pearled barley
3 vegetarian boullion cubes or 3 cups vegetable broth
1 TBSP cumin
1 TBSP turmeric
7 cups water (3 if using broth and not cubes)
14 oz can of crushed tomatoes
In a large pot, heat 2 TBSP olive oil over medium heat.
Add onion, celery, and carrots and saute for about 5 minutes. Add garlic and saute for about 30 seconds. Season with salt and pepper - be sparing with salt as boullion cubes and broth have lots.
Add water and boullion cubes, raise heat to high, and bring to a boil.
Add barley, lentils, turmeric, and cumin. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Add can of crushed tomatoes. Allow soup to simmer a little longer, until lentils are soft. Season to taste.
Serve with bread.
OOPS - That's supposed to be 1/2 tbsp turmeric.
Hey, which one of us is mildly annoyed?
Folks, I am here to tell you that this was a delicious soup. I couldn't believe that he just whipped it up. I am a lucky, lucky, possibly-mildly-annoyed neighbor.
Oh I was talking about your interactions with Maggie ;)
And yes Jessica a lot of my relationships do start love/hate - what can I say? it just takes a little while for my fabulousness to translate ;)
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