When we moved into our first apartment together, we explored simple recipes. We didn't have the funds to buy a lot of ingredients or a mess of cookbooks, so we turned to our parents, grandparents and friends for ideas. One of our friends taught us to make Dal. It was so easy! Here's what you do (coming at you, from p.5!):

That was the fall of 1988. How cool that 30 years later one of our readers in Vermont sent us this: