{"id":204,"date":"2003-03-01T04:19:08","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=204"},"modified":"2003-03-01T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2003-03-01T09:19:08","slug":"up-and-hungry-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/03\/up-and-hungry-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Up and Hungry Again Sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Up and Hungry Again<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the baby wakes me up too often and after a couple of times I am &#8220;up&#8221; for good-or at least for a little while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Last night I made <a title=\"Curry-Spiced Lentils &#038; Spinach\n&#149;     1 1\/2 teaspoon curry powder\n&#149;     1\/2 teaspoon ground cumin\n&#149;     1 teaspoon ginger\n&#149;     1\/4 teaspoon turmeric\n&#149;     1\/4 teaspoon cayenne\n&#149;     1 medium onion, chopped\n&#149;     2 cloves garlic, crushed and minced\n&#149;     1 cup lentils, rinsed\n&#149;     1\/4 cup converted rice\n&#149;     1 10-ounce package chopped spinach, partially thawed and broken up (I used turnip greens)\n&#149;     1 can (2 cups) vegetable broth (may use chicken broth if desired)\n&#149;     salt to taste\n&#149;     Chopped tomato &#038; mint for garnish, if desired\nCombine first 11 ingredients in the slow cooker\/Crock Pot. Cover and cook on low for about 6 hours, or until rice and lentils are tender but not mushy. Add salt to taste; serve garnished with chopped tomato and mint if desired. May be doubled.\nMakes 2 to 3 main dish servings..\nFrom: http:\/\/southernfood.about.com\">Curry Spiced Lentils and Spinach<\/a> for dinner. It is one of those things that tastes a lot better than it looks. If it is any testament to the veracity of my statement, my children cleaned their plates and said &#8220;mmmmm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I love anything curried, it is major comfort food to me. I realised this yesterday when I was making my little dehydrated-add-boiling-water-and-eat-paper-cup-curried-soup for lunch yesterday, it was curry all day. I want to say it is due to my West Indian background (Jamaicans eat curry, particularly curried goat which is very good), but Jamaican curry is not my favourite. I love Thai food, Sri Lankan and Indian. I am a particular slave to hot peppers.<\/p>\n<p>My love for curry started I would say in my senior year of high school. My father was a <a href=\"http:\/\/exchanges.state.gov\/education\/fulbright\/\">Fulbright Scholar<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fijiguide.com\/Facts\/fijifacts.html\">Fiji Islands<\/a>. The country is 51% Indian-the British Imported the Indians as indentured servants to work the land in the 1800&#8217;s. To this day there are many problems between the Indian and the indigenous Fijian (melanesian) population.<\/p>\n<p>Back to food, there was a nifty little &#8220;chain&#8221; of restaurants called Hari Krishna. They served awesome ice cream-my favourite was nutmeg and cinnamon. My girlfriends and I would go there for breakfast or lunch and pig out on potato curry with roti and samosa with chutney. Mmmm, hungry now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fiji is also where my family reverted\/converted, which is a store I will tell later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up and Hungry Again Sometimes the baby wakes me up too often and after a couple of times I am &#8220;up&#8221; for good-or at least for a little while&#8230; Last night I made Curry Spiced Lentils and Spinach for dinner. It is one of those things that tastes a lot better than it looks. 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