Chow-throw-it-in-the-pan-der with fresh rosemary bread

Right peeps,
Here's a cupboard bottom recipe that I've made and it ROCKS.
With the 'I've got a cold' season looming, this is a perfect concoction to fight away the bug.

Admittedly, I'm the WORST person on the planet when it comes to cooking... as far as remembering and writing down what I put in my creations.
The actual results are 9/10 amazing, if I do say so myself... I can just never make the same thing twice the same.

So, here goes... (Inevitably, I will have forgotten something but hey! It will turn out awesome anyway)

Chowder:
3-4 Handfuls of red lentils
2-3 Handfuls of aborio rice
1 Large can of sweetcorn
1 Sweet potato
2 Large onions
1 Can of kidney beans
2 Lemongrass stalks
5 Cloves of garlic
3 Medium size chillis
1/2 Handful of taragon
2 Vegetable stock cubes
2 Chicken stock cubes
1 Pack of un/smoked bacon
4 Large potatoes
Tabasco
Paprika
Cumin
Oregano
Large chunk of root ginger

Bread:
1/2 handful rosemary
40ml virgin olive oil
pre-packaged bread mix or make-yourself

Chowder:
1) Chop the potatoes into chunks, put aside 1/2 - 1 of the potatoes
2) Fill a large pan 3/4 full of cold water and put in the lentils and leave for 1/2 hour.
3) Switch gas on, a low heat for now will be fine.
4) Add the larger amount of potatoes to the pan
5) Chop the garlic, chillis and ginger then add all the ingredients to the pan.
6) Boil the 1/2 - 1 potato until soft and drain, leave in the pan.

Bread:
If you want to make the bread from scratch, start now. However, if you want a quick-fix, just use one of the pre-packaged bread mixes.
For this I used a prepack and a bread maker.

7) Put the bread mix into the bread maker
8) Add water appx 300ml or follow instructions on packet
9) Add 40ml olive oil and rosemary to the bread mix
10) Use DOUGH setting and leave until finished cycle appx 1hr 15
11) Put oven on Gas Mark Bread (appx GM8)
12) When finished, separate the dough into 6 breadroll size lumps and put on floured baking tray and put in oven for 15 mins.

Chowder:
13) By the time the bread has finished the dough cycle the chowder will nearly be ready.
14) At this point, chop up the bacon into smallish chunks and add to the pan
15) Remove lemongrass stalks from the chowder.

OPTIONAL
16) If it's too thin, spoon out some of the stock from the big pan into the smaller pan of potatoes and blend/mash.
17) Add thick potato sauce to the big pan and stir to thicken.

Serving Suggestions:
Serve.
Add a sprinkling of grated cheese or mozzarella slices.
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