Simple Dal

One day Naomi was in the kitchen testing a rice that we had never cooked before, a rice she had found in New York City called rosematta. It’s a red firm rice from southern India that gave a good smell to the kitchen as it cooked, a rice we have really come to love. When we sampled a spoonful, our first thought was, where is the dal? A friend was visiting at the time, so we asked her to stay for lunch, and while we chatted we put on a pot of red lentil