Ease on down the road

Hearty lentil soup

1 onion, chopped finely
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 cup of washed, unsoaked red lentils
4 cups of vegetable stock
2 sticks celery chopped
Big handful of torn parsley
I dried morita pepper crushed
Fresh tomatoes (but we forget them so used tinned)
I red pepper chopped

Instructions

In a large saucepan, heat oil, then add crushed garlic and onion, red pepper, dried morita pepper, celery, cook until soft.
Then add lentils, four cups of vege stock and stir through. Cover and cook on a low heat. Add in fresh chopped tomatoes and parsley. Soup should thicken. Serve with a crusty roll or fresh bread of your choice.

Today we painted our house yellow with the help of Jillian who also bought delicious vegan blueberry and zucchini slice and a pile of gardening gloves and tools to donate. It was a hot day, so it was sweaty work, but after several hours we had the first coat done. When surveying our handiwork we chatted to Jimmy, the guy who lives over the road. He told us that the house had belonged to an old couple, the guy had worked in the steel mill and had died several years ago, his wife outlived him for a long time alone in the house before moving into another place and eventually dying. None of their children wanted to the house so it had become abandoned. He was pleased we were doing something with the space and told us that you “couldn’t miss that colour even at night!”.

After some deliberations we choose yellow because it is going to represent the “yellow brick road.”  We will be working on a design for the mural in the next few days which we hope to get the local airbrush crew to help us with.

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