Posts Tagged ‘pumpkin’
Pumpkin and Lentil Soup
I’ve been meaning to use lentils more lately, and last night I finally did it! I made this pumpkin and lentil soup in the slow cooker (easy to cook NOT in the slow cooker also- I just did it that way ’cause it worked better with my day…), and it was quite nice. It was strong, and I wouldn’t really recommend having this for dinner, and then lunch the next day- could be a bit of overload! I can’t remember if I put curry powder in this or not… if you think it’s not flavoursome enough, then add 2 teaspoons!
Photo via weightwatchers.com.au
Ingredients
| Serves 6 | ||
| 1 medium onion, chopped | ||
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| 1000 g fresh pumpkin, peeled, chopped | ||
| 2/3 cup dry lentils | ||
| 4 whole stock cube, dissolved in 4 cups (1 litre) hot water | ||
| STEPS: | ||
| I cooked this in the slow cooker- so basically just put everything in there, and cooked it on low for about 9 hours. Could have been done in a few- but that’s the beauty of the slow cooker!
Once it’s cooked just wiz it with a bar mix, or put it into a blender to pluse. It turns out really, really thick, and we ate it like that, but you could probably add some light evaporated milk to make it go a bit thinner. This recipe is 2 Weight Watchers points per serve. If you add the evaporated milk, it’ll be more. |
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My Garden Pics…
A pictures says a thousand words, so here are some pictures of my new garden.
Here are some tomato babies!!
Some other tomatos live in the garden part. They’re here. Also in here is a cucumber plant next to it (hard to see), and on the bottom level is lettuce, basil and tyme.
Close up of the baby lettuce!! SO cute!
We had a problem with the side of our house- it is majorly ugly. It’s tin, so we can’t put dirt up against it or it’ll rust, and we can’t dig out the dirt already there, cause it’s REALLY hard. SO we’ve put these tires there.
They look pretty cool next to each other (goes with the tin look), and will look better when there’s more of them.
They’re full of soil, so the roots can mess around in there for a while, and then when they’re stronger they can make it down into the hard soil.
Lemon basil and cute flowers by the door.
My zuchini plant! They’re yellow zuchinis and are grwoing swimmingly. I’m actually going to pretty well leave these to scurry all over the feild…
These photos and more on facebook here.
Tags: basil, cucumber, garden, lemon, lettuce, melon, pumpkin, thyme, tomato, zuchini
