rugessnome. I'm not so sure about the scent of toor dal... (Reply)

~~eeurgh I don't necessarily feel great at the moment :/~~

The two major things I have tried to do today are

1. make sambhar
2. find the perle cotton I've been using for bobbin lace

I have chopped most of the vegetables and I guess the toor dal is finally cooked for the sambhar. It has given off some not so great smells, I think partly because it slightly boiled over and the starchy water burnt and partly just I'm unused to it and not certain I like the smell.

I am using the recipe from the box of MDH sambhar masala, and my ~500g of vegetables are made of:

3 slender but long okra pods, sliced
7 green beans, in ~1cm slices
1 small Yukon Gold potato, about 2×2×3", the size of a child's fist, in very small cubes
1 small Indian eggplant similar in size to the potato also in small cubes
½ a honeynut squash, the half a little over 100g or about 4 oz, cut into thin pieces probably ~1×1×½cm
about 50-60g frozen peas
about 50g/5 pieces frozen drumstick

I haven't chopped my tomato or onion yet and I need to find my tamarind paste. The dal also pretty much boiled dry at the end, so I added an arbitrary amount of water back to it...

I have not succeeded at finding my thread in a large pile of clutter that is its last known location, but I've made a mess even as I did pick up some trash and recycling. And the bending over made me feel slightly unwell even before the dust has given me a cough 🙃.