Categories: A Make Ahead Recipe along with Farmhouse Jiffy Cornbread

Ingredients

• 1 lb lentil beans
• 1 whole garlic clove, mashed
• 1/2 small onion
• 1/2 water & 1/2 broth to cover 2 " above beans
• 1 diced carrot
• 1 diced stalk celery
• 2 diced small potatoes
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil or
• 3 strips of bacon, optional
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions

1. ew pot cook peas with onion and garlic until almost done, about 15-20. While peas are cooking cook the bacon until almost crisp.

2. Dice the veggies and stir-fry them in the olive oil or bacon grease, if used; cook for about 5 minutes. Add them to the peas and continue cooking until potatoes are done, about 10 minutes.

3. Take about 1 cup of the cooked peas and put them in the blender for a minute or so; add the mixture back to the peas. Stir in and heat through.

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