How can I dispose of a pan of dahl?

Not to mention all the time I've just spent in the kitchen. Peeling garlic. Grating ginger! Chopping onion.

Express deliver to me, Jings. Anything to save me from having to cook... as I love the stuff.

Try Barts Lazy Ginger and Lazy Garlic. Instant pastes. I always use them if they're going in soups, stews. No mess or having to clean the grater / crusher afterwards.

What a shame jingle after putting all that effort in - very disappointing.

Did you use red lentils? We have them quite often and I enjoy them - what was wrong with them?

Oh don't! I've still got the washing up to do.

What - you can buy the stuff ready-made*finn*?

that should have been ffin

Yes. Red lentils.

It just tastes a bit - veggie. And bland. Not like a nice shop-bought curry.

Oh! Sorry ffin. I thought you meant "Express" was a delivery service.

Never mind.

Oh don't say that, I've just bought some lentils to make a dhal myself. I love curry though, so perhaps it will turn out ok. Previous attempts at making recipes from scratch never live up to the taste of a ready made sauce though, so we'll see. I'm doing a chicken balti tonight though, so it'll have to wait until there are some spare tubs for freezing it in.

I made a soup with this for lunch a couple of days ago, with some mixed herbs and tomato for flavour. It was OK, if a bit bland, but the problem is that by the time I had bloated myself with two large bowls of it I had still only eaten a third of the calories that are in the sandwiches I normally eat. By the following day I was starting to feel faint from the lack of calories.

Bury it at the bottom of the garden...?

Well here, it would be fed to the foxes and birds who'd eat anything in all this snow! They'd be really grateful. I've been cooking bulgur mixed with turkey fat I'd saved from Christmas- and the 100s of birds polished the lot.

Jings do not chuck it out!

Put in fridge overnight then tomorrow get on yer bike to Waitrose and buy a bottle of Tamarind essence/sauce - big dollop will render your dhal delicious and edible!

That recipe is the sort of thing that gets British vegetarian food a bad name.

Or... You could send it round to my DD and her family. They eat dal all the time, and love it,even the 2yr old. ( child that is, not the dal).

I'm going to try the sauce. I expect DH will eat it. He eats anything I put in front of him.

I'll eat it!
Have you any curry paste? Bung some of that in it, fry onion in butter, if no ghee, season and yum.

Good idea River - or you could check out "Taste #5 Umami Paste" Jing. Transforms almost anything that needs just that something extra.........even you!

!!! Cheeky!

Love dhall and have made it at home without problem. Where did your recipe come from jinglbellsfrocks? There are a lot of recipes and some are nicer than others.

Getting rid of it? We have food waste collections in our neck of the woods, but as granjura says you could feed it to the birds, or put it on the compost heap. An occasional dollop of cooked vegetarian food will not attract rats to it. Depending on how solid it is, you could just wash it down the sink.

Flush it down the loo?
What recipe did you use- so I can avoid it when making it for DD?

Stir in some Marmite. Yum!

Don't chuck it out jingle it sounds like you need to add add more spices. I have some great Dahl recipes, I add the spices listed in the ingredients but never measure them, I am always adding more anyway. I keep adding until it taste right. Sounds like you need more of everything. I also find if I grind my own spices they taste even better.

Send it to me jimgs I produce tasteless meals evey night, no one will know the difference

It's gone. Double bagged in the bottom of the wheely-bin. There was no redeeming it. It was a mush.

I will put the whole unhappy affair in a balloon and let it float away.

Crafting