There are red lentils soaking in the pan.  Today we will enjoy a spicy dahl!!  This is one of MY all time favorite comfort foods.  Funny thing is that I only recently started making it (in just the last 5 years or so). 

* "I bloom indoors in the winter like a forced forsythia; I come in to come out.  At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year’s planting.”

– Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek

Thanks, Rosemary!