What do you cook when you are home alone? For me the answer is almost always soup. With Troy having been away on exercise in the bush for the past week and not getting back until Friday I’ve been making batch after batch of soup.

Apart from chocolate, soup would have to be my favourite food. It’s warming, comforting and soothing.  And soothing is especially important, when on days like today I’ve spent the day sneezing, with my nose running non stop due to hay fever. So now, after a bowl of soup, I’m snuggled up in bed with a cup of tea writing this post.

This soup is a combination of some of my favourite things – lentils, lemon and mushrooms, with some chard thrown in for good measure. For the base I used home made vegetable stock, but feel free to use a good quality store bought stock to speed things up. And while this soup may not look overly enticing in it’s dark brownish tones it was exactly what I wanted. Warming and nutritious with that surprising fresh kick of lemon at the end. Serve with some warm crusty rolls or homemade whole wheat bread.

So tell me, when you are home alone what foods do you cook for yourself?

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