Recipe help?

[johnpalmer]

I have this dish I make. (No, kightp, this isn't the famous "Tuna Salad With Shredded 'Angel Hair' Cabbage" that really needs a more descriptive name, so people aren't surprised when they eat it and find out what it's really like.)

I take some oil - olive oil, or maybe clarified butter - and saute some onion. Then I throw some kale in the pan, then once it starts to wilt, I add lentils and then water, and boil it until most of the water is gone, then add garlic and let it cook, then add coconut milk, and curry powder.

And that last step, that's the problem. "Curry powder" means "we put these together, and called them curry powder." Can anyone help me figure out a good starting point for separate spices that make up curry powder in approximate ratios?

Comments

[laurarey.livejournal.com]

No curry advice, but Tuna Salad with Shredded Angel Hair Cabbage? Any chance you'd post the recipe when you have a moment? :)

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Oh, that... I make tuna salad - tuna, mayonnaise or Miracle Whip, pickle (relish), onion, celery, any other this-n-that you like in your sandwich tuna salad - and then, I mix it with angel-hair cabbage - cabbage that's been shredded super-fine (like angel hair pasta), as if for cole slaw. The joke was that the name says exactly what it is, and I was saying that I needed a more descriptive name :-).