Vegetable soup.

This is a lovely rich vegetable soup,you can add what every you want and to add to the flavour smoked bacon is ideal.

1. 1lt Water.
2. 150gm mixed lentils(I steep these over night with a small t/spoon bicarbonate of soda to soften)
3. 100gm tined,fresh,frozen pea's
4. 1 sachet cuppersoup any flavour or stock cube.
5. Salt and pepper.
6. 3 carrots washed and diced.
7. 2 potato's washed and diced.
8. 1 500gm jar of home canned tomatoes .
9. 200gm meat(optional).
10. large Onion.

Use a good sized pan and put all the ingredients into it pour enough water over to

just cover the ingredients and simmer on a low heat until cooked stir from time

to time to prevent sticking.

Note check the lentils they tend to take a while to cook.

You can if you wish liquidise the soup to get a smooth consistency, we prefer to leave

the vegetables in pieces.Taste often and add salt and pepper or another stock cube

according to your taste.

add ten minutes before serving so they don't over cook.