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Thursday, November 06, 2008

the comfort zone



Soup is a no brainer when it comes to comfort food, its right up there with mashed potatoes in my book of goodness. This soup is easy and fast, onion, carrot, celery, smoked pork neckbone, potato, lentils, salt, pepper, chicken stock.



Saute the vegetables until tender in olive oil add the pork add the lentils, stir a bit to coat add the stock and simmer until the lentils are done.



Serve with fresh bread from the left over pizza dough and slather on the butter, or not.

20 comments:

Anette said...

Oh yes! That looks just like the comfort food I like! Nose-runningly goodness!

Angel said...

yes please....soup is one of all my all time favorite things to eat. and this looks so good...I can smell it Dog!!!

Darius T. Williams said...

So yea - this looks great. I am completely in love with comfort foods like this! Where I come from - we eat this with cornbread!!!

buffalodick said...

Roasted a big pork butt, wanted to make pork chili, or pork BB-Q sandwiches, or possibly a Mexican pork roll-up... now I gotta add soup to the list...

tavolini said...

that looks great. Lentils are one of my favorite beans--they just cook up so quickly!

Christo Gonzales said...

anette: thats exactly it!

beth: you can smell the smoky goodness?

darius: cornbread is an excellent idea since the pizza dough bread came out so tough

buff: put some in the smoker...

tavolini: lentils cook up quicker than seems humanly possible...

Ramya Vijaykumar said...

Pork and lentils!!! mmm they look so comforting...

Chef E said...

You have blasted another one of my 'busy day working, so eat cereal nights' with lovely pictures of soup; although I had maple pecan whole grain cereal with maple brown sugar rice milk. Does that count for a beautiful meal like yours :)

The Blonde Duck said...

Gotta love comfort food!

Anonymous said...

Lentil soup is one of my top five comfort foods! (I can't have just one.)

Marjie said...

Cold weather's coming. Soup is good. I hope the Dakotas don't send us their blizzard.

Pizza dough bread's gonna be tough. Needs more liquids and fats to be good.

Angel said...

oh honey, I smell the smokey HISPANIC goodness all the way over here!!! and you don't even have to ask for The Girls...I am a sharing person.

Christo Gonzales said...

ramya: lentils are so comforting -forget about the pork..

chef e: please send me the 'structions on how to make your mustard - and your cereal ranks!

TBD: Its hard to hate thats for sure...

lisaiscooking: I hear you and I am impressed that you got it down to five

marjie: I am not the best baker - so little did I know it was a fat/liquid thing - but I do now...

Christo Gonzales said...

beth: thats what I'm talkin' about!

Maya said...

Yummy! Soup is the best thing about winter. That and snuggling up in front of the fireplace.

Maya said...

P.S. Kudos for making this recipe so easy!

Angel said...

dog, just tell me what size you are...uh, what size JACKET you wear!!! I'll do my best, but I make no guarantees, my friend. Vera Wang I aint!!!

Joie de vivre said...

I've heard the neckbone has lots of little bones in it. Did they get in your soup at all or were they easy to find? Just asking...I've never used the neckbone before, just the hock. Your soup sounds great.

CreativeMish said...

I love being in the comfort zone!

Harmony said...

I agree soup if one of the best things you can have...and this soup looks great!

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