Actually, just food this time around.
I haven't posted anything here for a while because I was busy talking about getting married to F on that other blog where I talked about getting married. That was great. Now it's done and I'll get back to my usual favorite topics.
It's spring, and although the weather is disappointing the vegetables are holding up their end of the bargain. I have some great meals planned for the next week or so. I'll describe them now, and when I have made them I'll put up some pictures.
- Friday, dinner with some friends at our house: potato gnocchi with garlicky broiled asparagus, a fried egg, lemon & basil from our newly established container herb garden.
- Sunday, brunch with some other friends at our house: masala dosa (that's when you fill the dosa crepe-style with spicy potatoes) with sambar, coconut chutney, and sweet yogurt sauce. Maybe uttapam too (that's when you embed things like tomatoes, onions and ginger in the dosa batter, blueberry pancake style). And chai.
- Dinner #1 sometime next week: Brussels sprouts broiled with cumin and mustard seeds, greek yogurt (probably also gujarati spiced), and some polenta or something.
- Dinner #2 sometime next week: My family's go-to Thanksgiving wild rice stuffing with dried cherries, mushrooms, celery, onions, and herbs. I will probably add some tempeh to this so it'll be more main-dishy, and might use wild rice & quinoa instead of wild rice & brown rice. The recipe is based on this one from epicurious, but I replace the pears with cherries and leave out the sausage because I'm vegetarian.
- Dinner #3, sometime when I am feeling homestyle: bataka poha, because F likes it so much. Bataka poha is potatoes (bataka) cooked with "flat rice" (poha), spices, and topped with cilantro & lemon. I think flat rice is partially cooked, pounded flat, and then re-dried. Here's what bataka poha looks like:
Come to think of it, I'll post some photos of the back porch garden later, too. I'm very excited about that.
