Ingredients:

• 3 things of bacon, diced
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 celery, diced
• 2 carrots, diced
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tsp of thyme
• 1 stock cube
• 1 tomato
• potato diced
• 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar

Instructions:

• cook bacon until almost crisp
• add onion, celery, carrots, garlic, bay leaf, thyme.
• Cook 5 minutes.
• Add 5 cups of water and add stock cube.
• Add 1 tomato and potato diced.
• Bring to a boil
• Add 1 cup of  green lentils
• Add 1/2 cup of red lentils (dried lentils)
• Bring down to simmer
• Partially cover. Cook on low for 45 minutes or until lentils are tender.
• Add 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar