Lentil soup recipe

I have a recipe for lentil soup that is probably my second most used recipe ever. The basis for this was suggested by my good friend SN in the 1990s. The recipe has been tweaked a little since then, but essentially it remains "lentil soup with baked beans in it". Doesn't sound too appetising when framed like that, but when blended the beans disappear and just make the soup thick. I strongly recommend rinsing the beans first to remove the sugary gloop that they come in.
 
Chop up one onion, one pepper, 3-4 stalks of celery and a chili pepper. Leave out the last one if you don't want spicy soup. Fry them in a big pan with black pepper, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 1 tsp coriander seeds and maybe some paprika. Feel free to stick a bay leaf in, but remember to fish it out before blending. About 5 mins should be enough to soften the vegetables up. Do you have any other left overs to get rid of? For example, half a courgette or a couple of cabbage leaves could go in. Some chick peas won't hurt.
 
With one eye on the frying pan and one eye on the clock, open a tin of baked beans and rinse the gloop off them. A sieve makes this easier, or just swishing them around in a pan of water. I'm sure that google will show up instructions for rinsing if you're uncertain about this, or leave a comment and I'll try to help you out.
 
Add 250g of red lentils to the frying pan, along with a can of chopped tomatoes or a carton of tomato passata, and the rinsed beans. Now fill the container that the tomato stuff came in with water and add to the pan. Do this a second time. Now add a stock cube, stir well, and wait for about 25 mins.
 
In theory you should wait for it to cool down, then blend, then heat it up again to serve. If you're the sort of person to splash yourself with boiling soup, and then sue the person who gave you the recipe, then you must do this. However you do it, the soup really benefits from blending; and serving with toast
 
If you like soup then a search on this blog for "soup" will give you some other recipes. Try them all! ++Edit++ I'd really like to see pictures of this soup. If you make this, please take a photo and link to it in a comment. Thanks

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I'm having to deal with them now because the wireless router that they provide drops the connection with the PC several times each day. I contacted them about this in February, and no resolution yet.
I won't name then to avoid possible legal action. But it is fair comment to say that I feel an actual citrus fruit could provide a service nearly as good.