Journeys

Dal (Slow cooked lentils from India)


1 pound dried lentils
1 onion, roughly chopped
one 2 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and minced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 TBSP curry powder
2 tsp ground cumin
2 dried red chilies or hot red pepper flakes
3 or 4 tomatoes, cored and roughly chopped
salt and black pepper to taste

Combine all the ingredients except the salt and pepper in a large pot, along with water to cover.  Bring to a boil over high heat and adjust he heat so the mixture just simmers.  Cook until the lentils are soft.  Season to taste and serve with rice.  This is delicious, easy and fast!  My kids love this.


"Focus on the journey, not the destination.  Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
                                                                                              - Greg Anderson

     "Every day you make progress.  Every step may be fruitful.  Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path.  You know you will never get to the end of the journey.  But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
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