I got Meera Sodha's Made in India as a holiday gift. I've done a lot of Indian cooking already, but this is a really good cookbook for me. It's not vegetarian, but the author's grandmother was, and she would serve three vegetable dishes for dinner, plus dal and some yoghurt and rice. So I'm making all the vegetable dishes in the book. They have all been really tasty, but the nicest discovery is a salad called kachumbar, which is finely diced tomatoes, cucumbers, and shallots or sweet onions with lemon juice and mint or cilantro or both, and optionally some crushed red pepper or diced green chiles. It's a lovely fresh addition to hot curries, and it also instantly makes a grand raita if you put it into yoghurt along with some black pepper and cumin. I eat yoghurt for breakfast as a rule, but plain unsweetened soy yoghurt is hard to find, so I tried lactose-free cow's milk stuff, and it actually is okay for me to eat. So I'm eating my new savory yoghurt for breakfast, which is a lot better for my blood sugar than my much-loved mango-peach or strawberry stuff.
Her mother likes to twit her about how when she was a child she would only eat Heinz tomato soup or shrimp, and the shrimp recipe is in the book. It's easy and very good. We call it "Kid Shrimp" and I expect to make it whenever shrimp is affordable.
Meera Sodha also makes various Indian breads sound really easy to make, so I'm eying those, although I don't have a good working place for rolling a lot of stuff out. We'll see. It give me pleasure just to contemplate, anyway. And I did order a bag of chana dal for the making of savory pancakes, which don't need rolling. I always find pancakes challenging to flip, but David asked for a very very wide spatula for making grilled sandwiches, and I realized that it would be useful for flipping pancakes too, so I got him one and got another one for the upstairs kitchen. He would let me use his, of course, but trekking up and down the stairs between kitchens can get old.
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Date: 2019-01-18 07:49 pm (UTC)Her mother likes to twit her about how when she was a child she would only eat Heinz tomato soup or shrimp, and the shrimp recipe is in the book. It's easy and very good. We call it "Kid Shrimp" and I expect to make it whenever shrimp is affordable.
Meera Sodha also makes various Indian breads sound really easy to make, so I'm eying those, although I don't have a good working place for rolling a lot of stuff out. We'll see. It give me pleasure just to contemplate, anyway. And I did order a bag of chana dal for the making of savory pancakes, which don't need rolling. I always find pancakes challenging to flip, but David asked for a very very wide spatula for making grilled sandwiches, and I realized that it would be useful for flipping pancakes too, so I got him one and got another one for the upstairs kitchen. He would let me use his, of course, but trekking up and down the stairs between kitchens can get old.
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