A Vegan Lentil Curry Recipe From My University Days

I will once again be flying in the Give Hope Wings fundraiser this year! Our June of 2024 flight will see us stop in many communities in Eastern Canada to raise awareness for this worthy cause. Last year 2023 we raised over $27,000 towards helping our neighbours - we made a positive difference in the lives of many. Here's the link to the 2024 fundraiser page: support.hopeair.ca/ghw2024/glens-hangar To learn more about the Hope Air Charity: hopeair.ca/

I grew up in a very small town in Illinois. Our next door neighbor was a Lutheran minister and his family of 5 kids. Before moving to our town, he had been a missionary in India. His wife always had some kind of exotic dish on the stove or in their pressure cooker. Rice and curry was a weekly dish that we could smell. And being from a small town, the spices used were very exotic. To this day, when I smell curry powder, it takes me right back to being a kid and playing volleyball over their mom's clothesline. Their kitchen window was almost always open and exuding smells of foreign lands.

"While studying for a degree in forestry and interning as a tree inspector" is somehow the most Canadian thing I have ever heard.

I remember when the Food Network was like this. Now all food stuff is competitions. Love your channel and your charity. Thank you!!!!

I'm pleasantly enjoying the thought of one of those vegan granola hippies you camped with that summer watching your videos on a regular basis and only today realizing "OMG he's that kid from university that summer!" 🤯

The recipe looks great. I loved the story about the tree planting hippies. My husband and I were members of the Hoedads, a collective of tree-planting hippies with a dozen or so different crews that operated in the 70s and 80s in Eugene, Oregon. In fact, we were planting trees near Troutlake, Washington when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980. The Hoeads were "cultural creatives" in our community of Eugene, Oregon. Men and women had equal say and equal pay. The Hoedads made important contributions to local institutions such as the Oregon Country Fair, the WOW Hall (a local performing arts center that was formerly the meeting hall of Woodmen of the World and is an iconic building in our town.) They had members who went into politics, and had an impact on local culture for sure. My husband and I lived in a school bus with a wood stove, it was deluxe compared to tent camping. Anyhoo, thanks for bringing back the memories.

Hello from Guyana, where curry is life! 😊 just wanted to point out to anyone interested, canned coconut milk and fresh coconut milk are two very different things. Canned is one note and fresh is layers of flavor.

My grandfather got a degree in forestry in the 1930s from the University of Washington. I actually have his diploma. And he then got a job working for the Cascade Lumber Company which became Boise Cascade. And I remember tenting out in the forest all the time growing up as a kid because we would go out on logging roads. It was the best and I still have fond memories of just tramping around on logging sites.

Love this. More hippie forestry gang recipes, please!

I have wondered about Glen's times in the woods for years. I enjoyed the storytime even more than the recipe

Excellent. A recipe suitable for a diabetic. It looks delicious. I’m going to give it a try.

really enjoy the younger day stories while cooking, please do more of your throwback recipes

Glen: Great kosher meal and you air it on the Sabbath no less. Thank you. Put all of those ingredients into a slow cooker on Friday for a vegetarian/vegan cholent. Maybe add a sweet potato. The lentils act as a ground beef replacement. When lentils are slow cooked they develop a darker color, a thicker texture and a delicious flavor. The lentils also come to resemble ground meat in the cholent. Respectfully, W.S.

Thanks for doing a vegan recipe! ❤

If you do not like coconut, blend some cashews up with water to get a similar creaminess. This can also be used for creamy pasta dishes too.

Would absolutely love to see more vegan/vegetarian cooking from those trips! So many vegan cookbooks I find are making dishes with 10, 15, 20 ingredients (some of them being real specialty kinds of things) and it can get ridiculous trying to find something easy for an after work dinner like this.

Really enjoyed your guest appearance on the Whiskey Tribe video today.

I was a tree planting hippy in northwest Montana traveling from landing to landing camping in the mountains through spring and fall seasons for a few years . Lots of great stories. we all cooked for ourselves

This looks really good. I have another lentil curry recipe in my collection, from Diet for a Small Planet, which is a bit more complex than this one. My husband doesn't like curry (took him 20 years to let me in on this little secret), but recently he said for me to cook whatever I want, and if he doesn't want it, he'll find something else. (He's on Ozempic, so sometimes he isn't even interested in eating things he likes. He's also a reasonably good cook in his own right, so he isn't going to starve if I make curry and he turns his nose up at it.)

I couldn't wait until you stopped talking about forestry and did the recipe. Then I couldn't wait until you stopped cooking to finish the story! More stories with cooking! I subscribed!!!