3rd Quarter Potluck Soup Recipe--it's LENTILS!

Look, frando, I'm a soup witch. I just am. And I do have a go-to potluck soup. There are different tweaks I make to it (depending on what I remember to put in, and what is in my house at the time of creation), but for the past few years it has nearly always been lentil-based. I can't help it. I always have lentils in the house, and they absorb seasoning and aromatic flavors like a dream. They are…