A Simple, Easy Lentil Soup Recipe

by Jeanette on January 10, 2011 · 11 Comments

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A Simple Lentil Soup (plus tomatoes and brown rice) I’m teaching a series of soup classes to a group of seniors at our local community center starting this week, and my first recipe will be a lentil soup. The goal of this soup series is to encourage seniors to cook healthily at home, rather than [...]

Red Lentil Vegetable Soup Recipe

by Jeanette on November 4, 2010 · 6 Comments

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Red Lentil Vegetable Soup © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Red Lentil Vegetable Soup It is cold and pouring out today, which makes me want to curl up on the couch with a warm blanket and a hot bowl of soup. A nice bowl of lentil soup would be good, I thought, this time with some smokiness, using Spanish smoked paprika and fire-roasted tomatoes. Red [...]

French Lentil Soup with Cilantro

by Jeanette on October 15, 2010 · 6 Comments

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French Lentil Soup with Cilantro As the weather gets cooler, I crave lentil soups.  I’m always on the lookout for a good recipe for lentil soup, especially one with a twist of flavor.  I came across several interesting lentil soups, but the one in Suvir Saran’s American Masala cookbook sounded especially interesting.  Suvir’s lentil soup [...]

Easy Curried Tomato Soup with Lentils and Spinach Recipe

by Jeanette on September 28, 2010 · 3 Comments

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Curried Tomato Soup with Lentils and Spinach This past summer, I was inspired to start a collection of quick and easy “stone soup” recipes after I saw an article called The kids are all right, but what about the elderly.  The article talked about the growing trend of seniors who stop cooking for themselves, and end up buying [...]

French Lentil Soup with Barley and Rainbow Chard Recipe

by Jeanette on September 3, 2010 · 6 Comments

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With the threat of a storm as Hurricane Earl made its way up the East Coast,  it was a good day to stay inside and make some homemade soup for my friends with cancer, “B” and “J.”  My friend “B” had suggested some lentil soup, which seems to be her favorite kind, so I set [...]

Recipe for Simple Lentil Dal with Whole Cinnamon, Cardamom, and Cloves

by Jeanette on July 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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Lentils are considered a “superfood,” providing both a source of high protein and fiber (soluble and insoluble), iron, as well as folate, which reduces the risk of birth defects.  Its high fiber content makes it an anti-cancer food. Lentils come in different colors – red, yellow, green and black, and are eaten all over the [...]