Melissa's Vegan Sloppy Joes

Melissa’s Vegan Sloppy  Joes

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour

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Ingredients (8 servings)

• 3 1/3 cups water
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 green or red bell pepper, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp  paprika
• 1 tsp oregano
• 1 ½ cups dried brown lentils
• 1 15 ounce can crushed tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons prepared mustard
• 2 to 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vegetarian Worcestershire sauce
• freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

• Place 1/3 cup of the water (can use low sodium vegetable broth instead) in a large pot. Add the onions and bell pepper and cook, stirring occasionally until onions soften slightly, about 5 minutes, add garlic and cook until fragrant; about another 30 seconds.
• Add the chili powder thru oregano and mix in well. Add the remaining water (3 cups), the lentils, tomatoes, and the rest of the seasonings. Mix well, bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and cook over low heat for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
• Serve on whole wheat buns.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “Bless You, Prison!”

"Solzhenitsyn in the 1950s at the Kazakh prison camp that inspired 'A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.'"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: 

It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and now good.

In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel.

In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor.

In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments.

It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. . . .

That is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me:

“Bless you, prison!”

I . . . have served enough time there.

I nourished my soul there, and I say without hesitation: “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!”

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