A light lentil

A lentil soup for lunch today, for one.

Two pints of water for four ounces of red lentils. Add a few tablespoons of finely chopped left over potato and carrot. Bring to the boil, simmer for a few minutes. Leave to stand for a few hours.

Bring back to the boil, add three stalks of celery. Simmer for a while.

Meanwhile slice two and a half onions in the way of the segments of an orange and fry gently in a little butter. Chop three rashers of bacon and add them.

When the onions and bacon are cooked, blend them with the lentils and serve with brown bread. At the watery end of the spectrum, with a modest number of dead flies, but entirely suitable for the lighter lunch. For an early mention of dead flies see reference 3.

It was the first time that I had used the new frying pan noticed at reference 1. Entirely satisfactory.

The bacon was described as Sainsbury's smoked streaky, carefully selected and trimmed by hand. I dare say an aggressive barrister armed with the trade descriptions act of 1968, as updated by the consumer rights act of 2015, could have had some fun with it. See reference 2.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/aga.html.

Reference 2: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/11/enacted.

Reference 3: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=hedda+gabler.