Its amazing how from being an total soup hater, I have now become a total soup'o'holic! ;). Most of my lunches when I am forced to cook for me alone consists of a bowl of a soup and some wholegrain bread. Also for a person working from home, it can be sometimes irritating to break my attention to go cook. But a grumbling tummy is never a great companion when you have deadlines in mind. Such cases also make lots of room for burning in my kitchen cos I try to cook and work at the same time. Most of the times it works, but in certain cases, I get too involved and forget that I had something on the stove. Hence such fool proof dishes ;)

Last week, when I was in no mood to cook, I went to my old standby - Soup. I have a well stocked pantry with whole grains this and that. I sometimes resent that it totally lacks the good stuff - those crunchy chips, that velvety and nutty Kit Kat or chilling vanilla ice cream. Sigh! I have no one but me to blame - no waitta minute. Can't be so selfish, lemme be generous and share some with my better half. I have this principle of going shopping full. Never hungry which makes sure that I never indulge.Yeah - all that self control sh*t never works! I have to cheat my system. Of course, later on I am busy cursing my resolve and not have any "good stuff" in the pantry - but got to make do with what I have right? Anyways, coming back to the recipe. This takes like 10-15 min to make, is a breeze to prepare and you dont have slave over the stove as such. Multitasking - totally OK! :) This recipe is from "Complete Vegetarian Cookbook" and has gone into my repertoire. I have adapted it to suit my pantry and tastes.