☔ What's better in a cold rainy day than bowl of home made soup😋
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🌟Lentils and beans are perfect for hearty, warming soups, they are a cheap, low fat source of protein, full of fibre and they count towards your 5 a day. Plus of find they really do fill you up 😊
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⭐ You don't need many ingredients to make a tasty soup, I don't really follow a recipe, I just see what I have in the cupboards. But here I have pictured your basic ingredients for a hearty, healthy lentil soup. If you have. Fresh herbs, that's great but dried work well in a soup too. .
🌟An onion, a couple of carrots, a pepper, a teaspoon of Cumin, a teaspoon of chilli flakes, some parsley and bay leaves and red lentils
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🌟I tend to use any herbs or spices I have, marjoram and thyme are also nice in a soup.
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🌟Gently fry the chopped onion, chopped pepper and grated/chopped carrot in a little oil, with some garlic if you like. Keep stirring and after a couple pf minutes add the spices according to taste.
🌟Add the lentils with a pint or so of hot vegetable stock (you can always add a tin of tomatoes if you like)
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🌟Then just simmer until the lentils have softened and the soup has thickened up.usually around 45minutes is fine. Lentils are also perfect cooked in the slow cooker, just make sure you top up with hot water whilst cooking, as the lentils can really absorb alot of liquid.
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🍏We are fully stocked up on fresh veg today 🍏 🍏 We have Royal gala apples, satsumas, mushrooms, brocolli, potaote, onions, carrots, savoy cabbage, cucumbers, pears and peppers!
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🍏We are open until 4pm today, with the lovely Lucie (who some of you may know from the Tamworth pantry) working .
🌟So come and see us at the plant Plot garden centre, Lichfield for all of your zero waste goodies
🌟Here is a peak of some of our new signs 😊
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🌟To fit with the ethos of the shop I am trying to recycle, upcycled and reuse as much as i can. I have been gifted lots of pieces of furniture and wood, so as of yet I haven't had to buy anything new! .
🌟 I was given a big sack of wooden off cuts, so I have painted them all with odd remnants of paint I have accumulated
. 🌟Ebony, from 'memories on show' (also based at the plant Plot) has then added the text for me 😊
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🌟I have lots more wood that I am painting for the larger signs for the front of the shop, which I will be working on with Ebony this week.
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🌟I love the fact we have been able to make so much ourselves and I think it will look brilliant when it's all finished too!
. 🌟my wonderful friends have spent so much of the past 2 weeks helping with painting, moving furniture and watching the shop for me, I couldn't have done this without them.
