Ingredients:

1 cup lentils (picked through for stones)

3 Carrots peeled and chopped

2 stalks of celery chopped

Celery Greens chopped fine (so much flavor)

1 Jar or canned roma tomatoes (mine were from my summer canning days)

clove of garlic minced

some olive oil

1/2 onion chopped

1 bay leaf

and about a teaspoon or just a couple of good shakes of dried parsley, oregano, salt and pepper

in a dutch oven or soup pot sauté the veggies (not the garlic yet) for about 5 min. Now add the garlic and wait a min or so. When you smell the garlic cooking add in the tomatoes and juice and about a cup or so of water. Stir adding the rest of the ingredients, simmer on low for about an hour and then enjoy! Perfect with warm crusty bread.... Now this is vegan but you could add meatballs if you wished. I could vision mini meatballs with lots of parm cheese in them.

The Banana chocolate chunk cookies are smelling divine! Heres the recipe for those.

I did not add the walnuts (none in the pantry) and cut the chocolate chip amount in half.

Enjoy and happy cooking!