3 fake and potato soup Recipes

dry lentils, onion, chopped, idaho potato, chopped, carrots, chopped, tomato, chopped, garlic cloves, sliced finely in slivers, tomato sauce (optional), bay leaves, extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, water

potato, peeled and chopped into 2 inch chunks, leek, trimmed and all the white part and some of the green sliced into 2 inch slices, onion , chunked, butter, water, vegetable stock (cube will do) or 3/4 pint chicken stock (cube will do), salt and pepper, fresh chives or 1 bunch dried chives, would do, for garnish