Lentil soup, made using this recipe.
I doubled the carrots, used green lentils because that's all I can find around here, used dried minced onions instead of fresh, and skipped the spinach. The only part I regretted was the carrots - I didn't realize the chopping motions would aggravate my elbow so much. But the soup is tasty and will provide me with several meals worth of leftovers.
The sort of online rabbit hole one is liable to fall down in lockdown times ...
There's a company named Spirit of Spice that specializes in "whole seed" spice mixes all coming in their own little mills: I've been a fan of theirs for quite a while, though so far I've been buying their products in stores, not directly from them. So when my stock of their garam masala mix went low and lower (during the lockdown of all times), I started to look for ways to replenish it ... it's heavenly with carrot and pumpkin soups, among other things, and has become an absolutely indispensible element of my cooking. -- In short order, I discovered they have an online store. The outcome of my foray through the rabbit hole thus opening up arrived today ... and I absolutely love it, from the "look" of the package to the contents (of course) and the nice handwritten thank you note from one of the two managers -- who had even included a large-size bonus item in the package.
And when I put it all onto my spice shelves, I noticed that the contents of my Spirit of Spice mix of Provençal herbs (no tomato soup without it, ever again!) is also beginning to run a bit low. Hmmm ...
Guess I'm in a book-food mood today ;)
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