HUNGRY GERALD

BSK’s Red Lentil Soup is HG’s favorite soup. It is sublimely satisfying—very delicious and very healthy. A steaming bowl, slices of buttered (or olive oil moistened) sourdough baguette, glass of red wine. This is the perfect lunch or dinner. It’s best on chilly winter days when it warms the body and mind. HG wrote a post about the wonder soup on a cold day a year ago. Well, it’s chilly today at HG/BSK’s Central Falls loft so glorious BSK made a big pot of the wonder soup for supper (and the next day’s lunch). The ingredients were red lentils (of course); roughly chopped carrots, onions, garlic, cilantro, tomato paste, cumin, turmeric, olive oil, dash of chili powder. Vegetables and aromatics were sautéed in olive oil. Hot chicken broth went into the pot with lentils and simmered until the lentils were done. Immersion blender pureed the mix and the juice from a whole lemon gave it a zing. The USA is fractured but HG/BSK take pleasure when HG/BSK can.