Curried Lentils and Sweet Potatoes

Don’t you hate it when you make a great meal, only to find that when you upload your pictures, they only turned out so-so? I know that most bloggers think this is good enough reason to keep the recipe to myself, but most of the time, I just can’t bring myself to do that.

Food is messy. Food doesn’t always sit just the way you want. And sometimes external factors, like lighting or the fact that you have hungry people sitting around waiting to be fed just doesn’t allow you to take the picture that the food deserves.

I grabbed this recipe off of the Smitten Kitchen’s site (something that I’ve been doing more often than not, it seems), so if you’re willing to take a shot at it, you can pick up the instructions over there. Her picture is a lot better than mine, so if you have any doubts about this recipe, head over, and she’ll set you straight. But please, let’s not be afraid to publish our mistakes. We publish recipes that have gone wrong and ask for advice or merely advise against them. So I’m posting my ugly photo along with this incredible recipe. Please, don’t judge a recipe by its photo… this really is one for the books.

NOTE: If you compare my photo to the one printed with the original, you’ll see that mine has more sweet potatoes. I used canned lentils instead of dried, so I had to guess at the amount, and I guess I was a bit under. I used 500 g of canned lentils and two sweet potatoes, so if you want to try to use canned ones like me, that’s a bit under (but still delicious!)