The fridge rules the menu in my house. Yesterday I bought a loaf of bread, a 5 pack of ramen, some mushrooms and fish cake. I was planning to cook ramen for lunch, then my Mom gave me some fish curry. So I ate that with some bread, and I just had mushroom cheeseburgers with fries for dinner. I'm full! I have a bag of lentils in my cooler that has been sitting there since the start of Ramadan. That's more than a month ago. Lentils are cheap, but the problem with lentils is that you can't get too creative with it, or it will taste like hell. My mother has a great recipe for lentil fritters, plus there's lentil soup/curry and hummus, but what else? I thought I would take it as simply as possible, and fry up some lentils with salt. Simple, right? It tasted great hot fresh out of the wok with a nice texture, but after a few it became unpalatable. Not chewy, gritty, hard or anything like that. It hurt my jaw. Right at the right hinge. It still hurts right now. What do I do with these damned lentils?
