Cooking
I was a bit adventurous yesterday (apart from rescuing flying foxes), and decided to put my cooking lesson of a few weeks ago from a friend into action.
I made paneer, a cheese made form milk curd used in indian cooking, and chapati bread. I was in the middle of mixing the dough when the call to the rescue came through, so when I got home I made some more.
It all turned out quite well. Paneer is so easy to make, and tasted really good. I made a paneer korma curry with it last night, and had the chapatis to go with it. I'll need a little practice with the rolling, but i did ok in the cooking part for a first attempt: nice warm chapati with melted butter and just a few charred spots. It actually tasted really good together. And chapatis are so quick and easy as well, flour and water. I need never buy paneer from the shop again. And I can have chapati to accompany any curry in the future.
Once I get some more brown lentils I'm going to make my sludge-come- dal again. It was delicious last time, even though I wasn't following any recipe.
I should get into making more dishes from my lovely new vegetarian cook book, a gift from a friend (who is moving overseas next week). The one who gifted me a novel a couple of months back. We (he) cooked a vegetarian indian feast a few weeks ago as a cooking lesson to show me how to cook paneer, and bread and dal and lassi and other stuffs. I was sooooo full after that. Then we had chocolate, caramel, and almonds in puff pastry as dessert. Needless to say I rolled to the car......
I made paneer, a cheese made form milk curd used in indian cooking, and chapati bread. I was in the middle of mixing the dough when the call to the rescue came through, so when I got home I made some more.
It all turned out quite well. Paneer is so easy to make, and tasted really good. I made a paneer korma curry with it last night, and had the chapatis to go with it. I'll need a little practice with the rolling, but i did ok in the cooking part for a first attempt: nice warm chapati with melted butter and just a few charred spots. It actually tasted really good together. And chapatis are so quick and easy as well, flour and water. I need never buy paneer from the shop again. And I can have chapati to accompany any curry in the future.
Once I get some more brown lentils I'm going to make my sludge-come- dal again. It was delicious last time, even though I wasn't following any recipe.
I should get into making more dishes from my lovely new vegetarian cook book, a gift from a friend (who is moving overseas next week). The one who gifted me a novel a couple of months back. We (he) cooked a vegetarian indian feast a few weeks ago as a cooking lesson to show me how to cook paneer, and bread and dal and lassi and other stuffs. I was sooooo full after that. Then we had chocolate, caramel, and almonds in puff pastry as dessert. Needless to say I rolled to the car......
posted by Bright Tiger | 7:47 pm
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Then we had chocolate, caramel, and almonds in puff pastry as dessert.
Dammit ... now you've started my chocolate cravings again.
And on a different topic, is see Ian Irvine book (A Shadow on the Glass) in your "library". I started that series when it first came out. Had to wait for the end of the series to be published, and by the time it was available, i'd moved on to other stuff. I feel guilty everytime i see the book now. Must finish the series!
I haven't read it yet, I have so many books in my library, and so little time to read them all...
Getting there slowly.....
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