SOUP AND SANDWICHES

A very healthy and satisfying meal is soup and sandwiches.  These dishes are what we are having on Fridays for the coming months.  Sandwiches with the crust on and also could be open sandwiches made out of bread rolls. Yes, to lead easy living during that time is what we want.  No fancy food, no take away and no rich food.  As for the soup, prepare and cook a big pot of soups and keep in the freezer is the way to go.

Open sandwiches, of freshly baked bread rolls.

Served with Cheese and Strawberry also Meat and Mayonnaise Topping

A sample of Open Sandwiches from an older post.

No, fancy sandwiches for Fridays, only nutritious sandwiches

These pretty sandwiches are finger sandwiches, often I prepare for the family when the children and grandchildren come home for a visit.  They are dainty and delicate.

Delicate and delicious club sandwiches

Delicious and Practical.

Toasted bread with any filling, makes an excellent hot sandwich.

Slice homebaked bread, add any topping should do and suffice for our dinner to go with a bowl of soup.

Fresh, Homebaked Bread

Soup
Cooking a big pot of soup to freeze is an excellent idea,  I do a lot of those.  Lentil soup is the family favourite, delicious!   If you need to cook the soup my way, today I retrieved the recipe from my older post for you.

The Recipe

Lentil Soup

There are many lentil soup recipes, but here I am sharing my delicious green lentil soup.  This soup is based on other recipes; I pinched from here and there to create this dish.

Susy's Green Lentil Soup

Ingredients

1 lt chicken stock or water for vegetarians

1 lt water

275 g dried green lentils

Herbs and Spices:

1 large onion, chopped

5 garlic, crushed

2 bay leaves

1teaspoon turmeric

½ teaspoon cumin

½ teaspoon white pepper

3 tablespoons olive oil to saute

Vegetables

2 cups grated or chopped carrots

1cup celery, chopped

2 potatoes, diced and chopped 2 medium-large red tomatoes

Salt to taste

Fresh greens and herbs

spinach-swiss chard and parsley, chives etc

Add in sherry-2 caps full.

 

Optional

Add in chopped bacon or ham during cooking.

Garnish

Chorizo or any sausages, pan fried

Extra olive oil to serve

Method

Sauté the onion, garlic until fragrant, add in all the spices, and cook for a few seconds

Add the green lentil, toss and stir, until the lentil is coated with the herbs and spices.

Add in the stock and water, bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes

Put all the chopped vegetables, bring to simmer and cook for 10 minutes.

Reduce the heat, cover the pot and cook for one hour or more to get a delicious flavour.

Cooking The Soup

Keeping the soup in a gentle simmer for over an hour, to have an intense and delicious flavour.

Green Lentil Soup with Leafy Vegetables

Soup is comfort food, everyone loves soups, especially in the cold weather, as they said there is nothing like to have a bowl of soup that warms the soul.  Well just maybe the green lentil soup is for you.  Give the recipe a go, you may like it.

Note: you could add hock or bacon for flavour, this way the chicken stock can be omitted if you wish.  Also, disregard the stock for mixed vegetable soup use water instead.

Love to cook lentil soup on cold days, but right now, cauliflower, celery are in season, so these vegetables most probably will be in our menu for these coming months. Indeed, we love those vegetables and their deliciousness.

Popular Soup For Us

Baso-Meatballs soup in clear broth

Noodle soup

Pumpkin Soup

Leek and Potato Soup

Spinach and Mung Bean
Chicken and Corn Soup

Basically, the soups are prepared and cooked without any recipe in my kitchen, but as you know, cooking soup is so easy.

Comfort food is for us at any time, and it is friendly and enjoyable.  

Celebrate Family today.  To our girls have a pleasant weekend, thinking of you, thank you for your love. We are Blessed.

Appreciate, Celebrate, Family and Friends.!  What Would You Do, What Would You Be Without Them?

On a rainy day, July 2018

Susy