Today I made Aloo Jhinge with tomato, after shooing Arpi out of the kitchen. It turned out fairly tasty, but still quite light. Great meal for a healthy meal day, like today :)
I cut 3 potatoes fairly small, and put them to fry with panchforan tadka. Turned the gas to min and left it there because I still had to peel the jhinge, which took quite a while. I sliced and halved the jhinge, waited for the aloo to cook (back at medium heat now), and then added the jhinge and salt. At some point after that, I added the tomatoes and covered the whole thing, and left it to simmer for a while. At the end, I added the haldi and mirch, which should have gone in earlier, but Arpi had forgotten to mention it to me. :) Sabji didn't seem any the worse for it though.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Monday, June 4, 2007
Who wants to make aloo gobi?
In case you're wondering, that's what the star in Bend it Like Beckham says when her parents want her to learn to cook instead of playing soccer :)
I want to make aloo gobi.
Did it too, and it worked out. Exactly when I had no idea how :). This is what worked (ie, what we liked), and it makes sense in retrospect. Slice onions fairly long, and fry it in kalonji tadka (also a little jeera) and turmeric. I've used both baked cauliflower and plain cauliflower, and it was good both ways; add in gobi when the onions are ready. Boil potatoes to firm but mostly cooked in the microwave, and add these in when the gobi is ready. Add dhaniya powder, and let it cook awhile, add a little water if you're feeling like it. Throw in chopped cilantro when the cooking is done.
Won't have much trouble with the "who wants to eat aloo gobi" question after that. That would be me :)
I want to make aloo gobi.
Did it too, and it worked out. Exactly when I had no idea how :). This is what worked (ie, what we liked), and it makes sense in retrospect. Slice onions fairly long, and fry it in kalonji tadka (also a little jeera) and turmeric. I've used both baked cauliflower and plain cauliflower, and it was good both ways; add in gobi when the onions are ready. Boil potatoes to firm but mostly cooked in the microwave, and add these in when the gobi is ready. Add dhaniya powder, and let it cook awhile, add a little water if you're feeling like it. Throw in chopped cilantro when the cooking is done.
Won't have much trouble with the "who wants to eat aloo gobi" question after that. That would be me :)
Homo Domesticus
I have decided to revive my old plan of using a blog to record the books that I read. Because there are a lot of them, and many times, after I while I can't even remember the title/author. So ...
Homo Domesticus by David Valdes Greenwood.
This a book about a gay couple, and the evolution of their relationship over many years. David VG is a pretty engaging writer, and I never really felt like putting the book down. Luckily, it is not that long either :). The big takeaway message from this book was that gay couples are just like straight couples in almost every way. Sounds pretty obvious, but it wasn't before I read the book. Not that I had thought too much about it :)
Another nifty thing from the book was the term awfulizing - thinking the worst interpretation of any conversation / outcome of any situation - which really was a concept waiting to be named.
So, overall, a good fun book.
Homo Domesticus by David Valdes Greenwood.
This a book about a gay couple, and the evolution of their relationship over many years. David VG is a pretty engaging writer, and I never really felt like putting the book down. Luckily, it is not that long either :). The big takeaway message from this book was that gay couples are just like straight couples in almost every way. Sounds pretty obvious, but it wasn't before I read the book. Not that I had thought too much about it :)
Another nifty thing from the book was the term awfulizing - thinking the worst interpretation of any conversation / outcome of any situation - which really was a concept waiting to be named.
So, overall, a good fun book.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Advice from the Wise
Leave the artichokes in the grocery store.
After an excellent dish with artichokes and lemon butter sauce in Namu (San Francisco), we foolishly got enthusiastic about trying out artichokes.
Ha.
In fact, ha ha ha. We boiled the artichokes forever, and poked ourselves with the thorns while trying to peel out the outer leaves. Then we pureed it, and built some serious biceps trying to strain out the fibre. (There's a woman going on about fibre on the TV, she should have tried the leftover from our strainer yesterday - I'm sure it's enough fibre for a year!)
Then we finally made the soup (according to some possibly misguided recipe with white sauce).
Guess what it tasted like.
White sauce.
So much for all that artichoke effort- next time I feel like that soup (which is very unlikely), I'll just make white sauce :)
After an excellent dish with artichokes and lemon butter sauce in Namu (San Francisco), we foolishly got enthusiastic about trying out artichokes.
Ha.
In fact, ha ha ha. We boiled the artichokes forever, and poked ourselves with the thorns while trying to peel out the outer leaves. Then we pureed it, and built some serious biceps trying to strain out the fibre. (There's a woman going on about fibre on the TV, she should have tried the leftover from our strainer yesterday - I'm sure it's enough fibre for a year!)
Then we finally made the soup (according to some possibly misguided recipe with white sauce).
Guess what it tasted like.
White sauce.
So much for all that artichoke effort- next time I feel like that soup (which is very unlikely), I'll just make white sauce :)
Return of the Jedi
After a long break from being enthusiastic about cooking, we have returned to our good ways today :). (The long break happened right after we returned from Banff, where we experimented with cooking in a kitchen equipped only with olive oil, salt and pepper. You can do a surprising bit (especially if you have a Safeway with readymade curry pastes handy :P) . )
So getting back to today. Cabbage with peas and potatoes, as per Sameer's request. My mom makes this, and I'm using her recipe (probably not quite as precise or perfect though :) ).
Fry the potatoes with panchphoran in a little oil. Add haldi when the time comes :P. And add peas and cabbage and tejpatta and fry it all for a while. And salt too, whenever. Finally add in freshly grated ginger and crushed elaichi. Garnish with chopped cilantro.
Yo.
Yum.
Here we come.
So getting back to today. Cabbage with peas and potatoes, as per Sameer's request. My mom makes this, and I'm using her recipe (probably not quite as precise or perfect though :) ).
Fry the potatoes with panchphoran in a little oil. Add haldi when the time comes :P. And add peas and cabbage and tejpatta and fry it all for a while. And salt too, whenever. Finally add in freshly grated ginger and crushed elaichi. Garnish with chopped cilantro.
Yo.
Yum.
Here we come.
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