Happy March!!
I’d like to believe a lot of us are creatures of habit. In my mind, there are very few things better than a nibble here and a sip there around a table with nodding heads and bouts of laughter. Conversations start and flow, taking us around a whole lot of subjects with a lot of food consumed.
The only drawback to this is you get used to this, a bit too much. A simple ritual but a fond one.
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If I had to summarize my weekend into one word, it would be: congested. Isn’t it annoying when you feel feverish but the temperature couldn’t be more normal. The whole weekend almost flew by resting and take out food. Not sure how you feel about NyQuil, but I can sleep 2 days straight with just 2 tbsp of it. I actually did(not literally), it did feel good.
What I did miss was home made comfort food, like some rice and spicy curry. I’m pretty exhausted from all the take out.
So after couple of days of take out food, I got up on Sunday and made my Indian Thai Curry(spicy). We enjoyed it with some coconut rice. Yum.
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It’s 3.30 p.m.; the front door opens to two hungry boys. The perfume of pepper, warmth from the spices, and the sizzling sounds are just inviting. If I was in my parent’s home, I would ask the same thing, “Mom, it smells so good, what are we eating?”
I have to put my foot down on some things.”Go change, wash up, put on your home clothes, and I will tell you what I cooked,” I say.
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When things are in a rush, every body’s got lots to do and you feel the need for extra couple of hours in a day….then comes the spicy yummy meal craving. That’s when one pot meals come in handy.
Don’t you love one pot meals?
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Are we close to October already? How did that happen? Just seems like we welcomed summer and now it’s orange everywhere. Just a few weeks ago, we celebrated birthdays, woke up late, made ice cream, barbecued, vacations and slept late(the best part).
Here we are on the thresh hold of holiday season, and I am not ready for it, are you? I hear friends have started shopping for Halloween, then comes thanksgiving and a ton of baking. Clearly, I need a drink.
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I happen to love paneer (non melting, unaged, farmer’s cheese).
Growing up, I don’t remember mom cooking much paneer (cheese). It was something that we ate at restaurants.
As a South Indian our diet mostly consisted of rice, lentils, vegetables, and chicken. Paneer/cheese was considered ‘North Indian food’. So when we wanted to eat, we would go out to a restaurant for a treat, and what a nice treat it was.
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A Recipe has no soul. You as a the cook must bring soul to the recipe. – Thomas Keller
Happy July Friends. Hope your weekend was good with perfect weather.
Mine I can say was hot and irritating. Our a/c is not working and it was 100 in the Bay. Thankfully I got a chance to stay in the skating ring with my preteen, safe for 3 hours while my little baby played cricket for hours in the burning heat. I also had a brilliant but impractical idea of driving around so we don’t have to walk into the oven. Well, that did not happen, I wonder why.
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“Food is the most primitive form of comfort” ~ Sheila Graham
Sundays were and are very special meal days. Those days (not too long ago;)), I would wait for Sundays for a huge feast. I would get ready for the part I looked forward to the whole week. It would be hard for me to convince dad, but I would tag along with him sometimes to the farmers’ market really early morning. Our fancy breakfast of appam (thin pancake) and sweetened coconut milk or sweet idiyappam (rice noodles), would be ready by the time we got back.. As soon as we devoured our breakfast, mom would start preparing for our lunch.
There were few things and habits which never changed, our Sunday menu was one of ’em. The Brown Chicken, as my little one calls it now, was the STAR of our lunch. So glad that this Peppery curry leaves Chicken has become one of the favorite dishes of the picky eater.
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“Condiments are like old friends — highly thought of, but often taken for granted.”
Marilyn Kaytor,
It does no lasting damage, but the way our body reacts to this simple yet strong spice is interesting. Tingling of tongue, sweat drops forming, quickening of pulse doesn’t stop someone from enjoying it and gulping buckets of water later. We Indians are known for a high tolerance to this spice powehouse, GREEN CHILLY. India is known to be the largest producer and consumer of this treat(info from WIKIPEDIA).
Visited a friend for dinner, she keeps the condiment she concocted and warns, ‘it is spicy’, eat with care. How spicy can it be?? ufffff…sweating, it was spicy, tasted so good and fresh, became a fan of pickle. I don’t normally have pickle with my meals, but she got me hooked on to it. She bottled up some for me to take home, which I licked clean in matter of days and called back for more. Convincing her to bottle it up and sell it..
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