What I like about my recipe and yours is they are both refined peasant dishes.
A lot of the flavor comes through the miracle of time and love.
I think I’ve read that in Indian cooking, it’s important to have good feelings while doing the work, to realize and internalize the Ideal that what you are doing is to benefit everyone who eats it.
I think that’s why I love soup-making best - it’s a very contemplative kind of cooking/effort.
-JT