In the winter there is nothing like a good bowl of soup. I went through this phase… a long long time ago, where I’d make soup. Since I’ve been with Sheri I don’t make soup. Because she probably makes the best home made soup in the world. Today I made soup. I didn’t exercise. I did work quite a bit and I made soup–while Sheri was out at Italian class.

Here’s what I did, we’ll see how it tastes. I laughed to myself as I made this soup–remembering the things I’ve read at stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.

Fatman’s Tomato Lentil soup

• About 1.5 litre of distilled water
• 2 cans of organic diced tomatos
• 1 spoonful of organic pesto
• 2 small red onions
• 2 cubes of Kallo organic soup stock
• 1 can of President’s choice organic bean medely
• 2 large organic carrots
• Some kind of expensive sea salt (I used Eden Organic French Celtic Hand Harvested Sea Salt)
• Organic butter (about 1/3 cup)
• Really good cold pressed olive oil (I used colavita)
• About 1/2 cup of dry red lentils
• About 1/2 cup of basmati rice
• Some fresh basil (organic if you have it)

Pour some oil in a pot, throw in about 3tbsp of butter and heat it. Chop up your onions and throw it in. Let it simmer for a bit. dump in the tomatos, water, chopped up carrots, rice, lentils, well everything else.

Bring the brew to a hearty boil. Turn the pot down to ‘simmer’ and let it cook for a few hours with the lid on. From time to time stir, taste it, salt and pepper it to your taste.

I laughed because everything in my house seems to be organic, and is on/or seems to be on Christian Lander’s list. Tomorrow I’m going to head out for a cross country ski–it’s not -40C here anymore–and when I come home I’ll have a big bowl of the soup with some fresh bread from the bakery and a mug of STASH organic earl grey black-green tea. I’ll twitter about whether the soup is any good or not so you can all read about it on Facebook.

Oh and a I’ll finish it all of with a good beer. Hmmm shoulda put that in the soup.