I just made a gigantic batch of vegetable curry tonight. It took me about an hour, but it was worth every little second.

Basically 4-5 large ribs of celery, sliced, 2/3 of a big potato, cubed, one zucchini, cubed, 2/3 of a midsized onion, diced, about 12 ounces of mushrooms, cut into quarters, 3 carrots, chopped, a can of diced tomatoes, juice and all, and half a large box of chocolate bar curry paste. Sweat the onions in a hot midsize saucepan (or dutch oven if you have one), sautée all the vegetables except for tomato and mushrooms. Set aside sautéed vegetables. Sautée mushrooms separately, throw the rest of the vegetable back in, cook some more (about 5 minutes). Put in enough water to generously cover (about 4-5 mugs' worth), bring to a boil. Throw in chocolate bar curry paste and then stir vigorously until mostly dissolved. Let it come to a boil again and thicken slightly. And then you're done!

The only failure was cooking 2 pounds of basmati rice in a 3 quart saucepan. Bottom got scorched, but otherwise pretty good.

Now if only I can store rice without having it go bad sitting on the counter or getting really hard in the fridge.