Red Lentil Soup & Flat Bread – Canadians, Your Deli and Bakery Might Be Deceiving You

Last night we were watching some reports from CBC.ca/marketplace, I happened to find a video obtained by undercover journalists, for how plenty of farmer’s markets throughout Canada are actually fooling consumers, pretending their products to be from local farmers, when many of the vendors are actually getting the products from grocery stores or wholesale stores. Not so shocking, it always crossed my mind with the exact size of produce (say carrots, they are never the same size from my garden, you know, unlike grocery stores carrots, etc) and triple the price from stores, I had my doubts.

Then we watched how spray foam insulation makes people sick, not just in Canada but also in US, so happy to learned about this as we plan to build our own house someday.

Then moved on to another video of how best before date is actually marked up at famous grocery stores especially when it comes to deli meats and bakery products, and how they would dye the meat to make them bright red again, or how they mix old and new meat and ground them up, and repackaged. Jeez!

The reporters even brought these baked goods/cakes and meat to the lab, and surprise, surprise, even when the best before dates on the packaging are still good, all them products are actually already rottening, which in other words, are already 2-3 weeks past the first stated best before date. They were just repackaged, then repackaged again, and again.

Crazy. Yuck. Unbelievable.

I’m surprised I didn’t get a nightmare last night, seriously. At least now I know which undercover news that I can share to those who say it’s cheaper to get a cake at a grocery store’s bakery 😱😵😱😵

Meh, enough of scary news, let me just share you our dinner last night. I prepared soup and flat bread. It was delish.

Ugh, TKF, after scary info now you are sharing a recipe? 😂

Mate, my name says it all, my account is majorly about food, just sometimes I came acrossed important info that needs to be shared and I don’t feel like making separate blog just for it ✌️✌️✌️✌️

Don’t get me start on how low Steem price is 😂 It’s TGIF man, put on your horse fly mask and keep on blogging, or relaaaaaaax.

Now back to my dinner. A bowl of simple yet nice red lentil soup which I served it a long with flat bread.

My boys topped theirs with DF sourcream, I don’t quite like commercial dairy free sour cream nor yogurt, I haven’t found a good one yet, so I served mine as is and it was perfect already.

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 large sweet white onion (Vidalia), chopped finely
• 5 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1 1/2 c red lentils
• 2 tbsp ground cumin
• 3 large tomatoes, pureed in food processor
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
• 2 veggie buillon cubes
• 7 c water
• salt and pepper to taste

How To

• heat oil, saute onion and garlic until soften, stir in lentil and cumin, cook for a minute
• pour in tomato puree, stir. Pour in water, stir.
• add in the rest of the ingredients and bring to boil, cook for 5 mins
• lower heat to simmer, cover pan, and cook for another 20 mins

Flat Bread

• 1 large potatoes (200g), skin, slice/cube, boil in salted water til soften, drain, mash
• 1/2 c coconut milk beverage, lukewarm
• 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 1/2 c flour
• 25 ml Vegeta powder
• 25 ml olive oil
• 1 tbsp garlic powder
• 1/4 c coconut milk beverage mixed with 2 tsp vinegar

How To

I have this Betty Crocker’s measurement spoon, it has 25 ml, 1 tbsp, 1/2 tbsp etc, so I used the 25 ml spoon

• Stir in sugar and yeast in lukewarm milk, let stand to bloom, 5 mins
• Mix flour, garlic, Vegeta, and mashed potato in a large bowl, make a well in center
• Pour in oil, vinegar mixture, yeast mixture, knead
• Cover with cling wrap until ready to fry

Frying Bread

• brush non stick pan with 1 tsp olive oil
• roll flat dough @50 g each
• fry bread for 2 minutes, covered, on each side