My Curry Recipe

Many of you know that my favorite food is curry. When I make it at home, this usually what I use:

1/2 a tube of ginger
4-6 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon of cumin seed
1 onion, chopped
1 teaspoon of each: turmeric, coriander, chili powder, and garam masala
1 can of whole tomatoes
1/2 can of coconut milk
1 can of lentils
olive oil
salt

Fry the onion, ginger, garlic and cumin seed in oil until the onions get soft and a bit clear. Then add the turmeric, coriander, chili powder and garam masala and stir to mix it all up. Next, add the can of tomatoes and break up the whole tomatoes into pieces. Add the coconut milk and the lentils (without the juice from the can) and let it boil down until it's thicker than a milkshake. Taste it and add more spices and salt until it's the way you like it.

Optionally, I often use additional spices like cardamon or fennel seed if I have them. Also, you can use cow's milk instead of coconut milk if you don't want it to taste sweet. I usually use more chili powder too, but that's because I like my curry to be spicy.

If you can't find canned lentils, try dried lentils from one of the Brazilian stores in Fuji or Numazu. They're cheaper and they cook pretty quickly.

Slow Food

I read a book recently about good eating habits. The author had quite a few tips on how to eat healthily, but this one is my favorite: "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food".

For example, my great-grandmother probably wouldn't think a Soyjoy bar were food at first glance. It doesn't really look like food, does it? On the other hand, she would easily recognize natto as food, even if she'd never eaten it before. It looks like food. I think the point is to keep your foods simple, and to use whole, natural ingredients.

I like this rule, but it makes going to the convenience store feel pretty pointless!

Summer Vacation

Our summer vacation starts on the 13th, and continues until next Monday. Our first post-vacation class is on the 18th. Please make a note of it - and enjoy your time off!

Bicycle

Do you know why a bicycle is called a bicycle and a unicycle is called a unicycle? It's because "uni" means "one" and "bi" means "two". Also, the "tri" from triangle means "three", and "quad" from "quadrilateral" means "four".

How many more words do you know with "uni", "bi", or "tri" in them?

Here are a few...

uniform, unique, binary, bisexual, tricycle, trivia

What do you call a vehicle with three wheels?