Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, potato, leek, lentil, pancetta soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Potato, Leek, Lentil, Pancetta Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Potato, Leek, Lentil, Pancetta Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have potato, leek, lentil, pancetta soup using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Potato, Leek, Lentil, Pancetta Soup:

1. Prepare 6 good size Potatoes, diced
2. Make ready 4 Leeks cleaned well. Slice down the middle and cut into thin half moon slices
3. Make ready 1 chunk of Pancetta (I used “hot”)
4. Prepare 1 clove Garlic
5. Take 1/2 cup Orange Lentils (Dry)
6. Prepare 2 Onions coarsely chopped
7. Take 4 cups Vegetable Stock (or chicken)
8. Take 3 cups Water
9. Get Salt to taste (You can add pepper)
10. Take 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil
11. Get handful Chives and dry Parsley

Steps to make Potato, Leek, Lentil, Pancetta Soup:

1. In a soup pot, heat Oil. Sauté the Pancetta for 5 minutes. Add Onions and Garlic. Sauté for 10 minutes. Stirring often. Add Leeks. Sauté all together for another 10 minutes (or until you think it looks married and ready). Add Potatoes, Lentils and Stock. Bring to a boil. Once it has a rolling boil going, lower to simmer. Simmer for approx 2 hours. Taste for saltiness. If the Pancetta didn’t salt it enough, add Salt to taste.
2. Top with Parsley and Chives before serving. My husband added a couple teaspoons of plain Greek Yogurt to his soup bowl to cream it up. You can also top it with grated Parmigiana Cheese to add more of a salty taste. We ate this with oven heated crusty Italian bread 🥖🍲

Foods That Make You Happy

Many of us have been trained to think that comfort foods are not good and must be avoided. Often, if your comfort food is a sugary food or some other junk food, this is very true. At times, comfort foods can be utterly healthy and good for us to eat. There are several foods that, when you consume them, could improve your mood. If you seem to be a little bit down and you need an emotional pick me up, try several of these.

Eggs, believe it or not, are great for helping you combat depression. You need to be sure, though, that what you make includes the egg yolk. The yolk is the part of the egg that matters most in terms of helping raise your mood. Eggs, the yolks especially, are rich in B vitamins. B vitamins can actually help you elevate your mood. This is because they help in improving the function of your neural transmitters, the parts of your brain that control your mood. Consume an egg and cheer up!

Put together several trail mix of nuts or seeds. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and so on are all wonderful for improving your mood. This is possible because these foods are rich in magnesium which raises serotonin production. Serotonin is the “feel good” chemical substance that directs your brain how you feel at all times. The more serotonin in your brain, the better you’ll feel. Not only that, nuts, in particular, are a great protein source.

Cold water fish are excellent if you would like to be in a better mood. Salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, trout, and so on, they’re all loaded with omega-3 and DHA. Omega-3 fatty acids and DHA are two things that raise the quality and the function of your brain’s gray matter. It’s true: consuming a tuna fish sandwich can earnestly raise your mood.

Grains can be excellent for overcoming a bad mood. Millet, quinoa, barley, etc are excellent at helping you have a happier mood. They help you feel full as well which can truly help to make your mood better. Feeling starved can be awful! The reason these grains elevate your mood is that they are not difficult to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps promote a rise in your blood glucose which in turn brings up your mood to a happier place.

Green tea is really great for your mood. You knew green tea had to be in this article somewhere, right? Green tea is high in a certain amino acid referred to as L-theanine. Studies have found that this particular amino acid can basically induce brain waves. This helps better your mental acuity while calming the rest of your body. You probably already knew how easy it is to get healthy when you consume green tea. And now you are aware that it can help improve your mood too!

So you see, you don’t need to consume all that junk food when you wish to feel better! Try a few of these suggestions instead.