Last night I whipped this comforting dish up in the slow cooker. First you want to chop and place all the veggies (onion, carrots, broccoli, peppers, peas, corn, string beans) in the bottom of the slow cooker. Then add 1/2 cup of low sodium chicken or vegetable stock. Slice up the garlic beef and turkey sausages and place on top of the vegetables. Add a large can of diced tomatoes. Add about 3 tablespoons of curry paste. Give it a gentle stir. Set the slow cooker on high for about 4 hours. When the slow cooker has 1 hour remaining... take a large can of lentils and drain the excess liquid off. Add the drained lentils to the slow cooker. Give it another gentle stir. At this point I add some perogies, at my kidlets request. They like adding perogies to butter chicken and curries. When done serve over saffron rice. It was very delicious and had a lovely curry flavour.
My son lent a hand in the kitchen and decided to grid some pepper using the mortar and pestle. He was quite pleased with his efforts until a pepper dust particle went into his eye. That did not deter his sister from getting in on the act. She then had to grind some pepper as well. Needless to say their efforts were greatly appreciated and now we have a nice bowl of ground pepper. - JW
