a surprise substitute, in curried lentils.

today, as a distraction from work, i attempted to make curried lentils to accompany last night's brown rice.

it was a tolerable curry: i had an onion and lentils, and it was the usual cocktail of curry powder, cumin, allspice, salt, and chile, to be simmered in a pot ..

.. but instead of coconut milk (i didn't have any in the house) i used a heaping teaspoon of condensed milk. the outcome was strange: a little too sweet, and it muted the other flavors more than i liked.

i still don't know what to make of it;
the jury's still out.