On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:56:16 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 3/24/2013 2:48 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:45:03 -0600, Janet Bostwick
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:42:58 -0700, sf > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:01:46 -0600, Janet Bostwick
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking of trying something different the next time I make
>>>>> lentil soup. Maybe head it toward curry or Mexican. I'm just bored
>>>>> with the same old thing.
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't go crazy with curry. This is about as far afield as I'd
>>>> go. It's a different bean, but you get the general idea.
>>>> http://www.dinnersanddreams.net/2013...up-recipe.html
>>>
>>> those seasonings seem to be really common - I'm having a hard time
>>> mentally tasting lentils with ginger.
>>
>> That's my attitude toward curry!
>>
>Granted, I've not been exposed to a *lot* of curry. Once when we were
>in Dallas (or was it Houston?) we had some really tasty curried lamb
>meatballs. But overall I'm not a fan of curry.
>
>My mother surpised the heck out of me one night by making curried rice.
> (This is not something I grew up eating.) It was the most cooking I'd
>seen her do in many years: chopping and sauteeing an onion, cooking the
>rice (I think it was boil-n-bag rice, she'd "graduated" from Minute
>Rice), adding curry powder and who knows what else. I ate it because
>she went to a lot of effort. But it really wasn't very good.
>
>Jill
I don't think that curry powder (generic) represents curry. Kinda
nasty.
Janet US