Chili

One vegan meal i've been enjoying for many years is veg chili. For awhile this was the only veggie recipe my mom knew how to make so I ate it often. After a recent move even further downtown and farther from any organic/natural/health food stores I was unable to find some key ingredients for this fabulous chili. In lieu of TVP, stewed tomatoes and many other veggies I usually toss in I substituted whole roma tomatoes, canned lentils and tomato paste.

Generally when i'm improvising I don't keep track of the amounts (also my measuring utensils didn't quite make it to the new place). Anyway here's the ingredients list.

• Can of tomato paste
• 1/2 can lentils
• Chopped celery
• Can of roma tomatoes and juice
• Kidney beans
• Diced onion
• Chopped garlic
• Chili powder
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Diced green pepper
• Chopped Mushrooms
• Red pepper flakes

Tastes delicious with Earth balanced buttered toast... mmm...