u/Lyndy118

I use Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries all the time and love the variety of ingredients he uses. But sometimes I need to be more practical and use substitutions rather than getting too many items that will end up going bad before I use them all.

I recently ended up with several pounds each of green and French lentils. I used the green lentils in a recipe that called for split green lentils and it tasted great to me. I'd like to try to use up both types of lentils and am wondering if there are any substitutions that are particularly good or not good.

I like to choose a recipe by what spices sound good to me rather than which legume. The book has lots of recipes for split green and yellow lentils. It also has several for cowpeas, chickpeas, black lentils, red lentils, pigeon peas, black-eyed peas, mung beans... Many of these I've tried using the called-for legume and loved so I'd like to make some of them and use up my excess of lentils. Any suggestions for which I should or shouldn't substitute with green or French lentils?

When I was 7 I played T-ball but I'm pretty uncoordinated so only hit the ball a few times the whole season. The first and only time I got a hit in a game I mostly hit the ball but I struck the T a little bit too so the ball landed just a few feet in front of me. I started running to first base and the catcher just took a few seconds to grab the ball and throw it to first.

The ball hit me in the back of the head before I got to the base (this was way before helmets were worn which isn't important to the story but just sort of illustrates how my life goes). We were taught that to get a runner out, you tag them with the ball -- you literally touched the person with the ball that was in your hand. So because the ball hit me, I assumed I had been "tagged by the ball." I thought I was out and turned around and headed back to the fence.

Everyone started yelling (excitedly because I never got a hit) to keep running. I did make it to first base! When I think of this now it's hilarious. I'm imagining everyone just throwing the baseball at the runners to get them out.😂 I'm now wondering if this was autistic reasoning or possibly just 7-year-old kid reasoning.