Lentil love

Do you have a favourite recipe that your partner/kids/flatmates dislike? I adore my hearty red lentil soup but my husbeast is dead against it (apparently it tastes like ground up hippies?) I certainly don't think of lentils as being hippy food, but a total deliciousness personified in lentil form. Maybe he'll come around one day, but lentil then, more for me!

Hearty red lentil soup

2 tablespoons butter

1 medium onion

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cumin

250g dried red lentils

2 tablespoons of chicken stock powder

2-3 litre of water (alternatively you could omit the stock powder and use real stock)

2 x 400g tins of diced tomatoes

Fry off diced onion in butter :: add ginger and cumin, stirring until fragrant :: add rinsed lentils, chicken stock, water and tomatoes :: simmer until lentils are cooked through (but not mushy) :: yum

I had one of my long awaited wishes granted to me this week via this recipe. I love to cook food for people and I always had a needy desire for someone to love what I made them so much they asked for the recipe, whoop whoop.. I feel fulfilled and happy, thanks friend, you know who you are xx

EDIT:: I just published this post and realised the image looks suspiciously spew like, I assure you this is more about my photography skills then it is about the soup.