> Sale item: Suraj brand Chana Dal 1.8 kg $6.49 ea so $1.66 lb.
> Chana dal is split chickpeas. Once the dark brown "black" Desi
> chickpea is hulled and split it is yellow in colour; it looks a lot
> like yellow split peas. The taste is not all that different from
> split peas either. When eaten together with rice or something
> wheaten it makes an incredibly cheap high protein dish as 1 cup of
> dried dal will swell up into 3 cups of cooked.

> I used some recently in a standard French Canadian Habitant style
> pea soup using turkey thighs instead of ham.

> The next soup also used turkey thighs but this time the base was
> left over meat and broth from the Indian not chicken "butter
> chicken".

Both of those sound delicious.  Chana Dal dishes are one of my go-tos at
Indian restaurants.

> The grandkids are here now and the house is littered with half
> finished abandoned soft drinks as they don't want the same
> flavour, so won't split one and never finish them or return them to
> the fridge as they are mindless teenagers. In an effort to salvage
> the leftovers before they went flat I came up with this Tiki thing:
> equal parts non-carbonated guava nectar, 7-UP, Fanta orange and
> optionally, rum. The three fruit flavours go together really well
> and I will do this again on purpose.

Sounds like an experiment that was very worthwile.

> What's everybody else up to in the kitchen during the hot dog days
> of august?

As little as possible considering the heat.  We had a break from the heat
for a couple of days but it returns today.

Mike


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