Lentil soup

A typical lunch at home used to be lentil soup with rolls spread with butter followed by the puddings I mentionned in a previous post (jelly, custard, Bird's Eye delight or even apple crumble).  We just called it sim lentil soup but on the web it's known as Scottish red lentil soup - for obvious reasons since the lentils we used were orangey red and which came in plastic bags

Lentil soup is quite easy to make, you dice up some onion, carrots, turnip and leeks (on the web there are a lot of recipes with celery but we never had that at home) and let them sweat in butter in a big pot, then pour in water, add a couple of cups of lentils, boil and then leave to simmer for an hour or so.  When you are ready to serve grind some salt and pepper over the soup and add some fresh parsely.  My dad always had a plentiful supply of parsely since he had his own herb garden.  And this is what it looks like.

As I said this was accompanied by rolls spread with butter