Red Lentil Soup

What you need

• 1 cup red lentils
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• butter

Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.

What you do

Soften chopped onion and carrot in butter. Add the rinsed lentils and four cups of water. Simmer twenty-five minutes until everything falls apart, then mash smooth.

How it feels to make

You keep checking whether the lentils have gone soft, and they go from stubborn to gone in about a minute.