Eating Indian -

[Monica Bhide]

Its two oclock pm in Washington DC and there is two inches of snow outside my window. I hear Minn is much colder.

I am sipping a simple cardamom tea and wondering what to cook for dinner - something hot and spicy that counteracts the weather.

What are you cooking from your spice cupboard that is warming

Do share

[Milagai]

hola monica!

i'm just a little south of you and thus get your used weather.

we're just starting to snow, but been having a cold

snap last 2 days.

i made some KICK A** bisi-bele-bhaath

(no MTR mix, mom's recipe)

and EVERYONE loved it:

husband fell off his diet wagon with a thud,

and 7 yo dd and 3 yo ds kept saying

"yummy in my tummy" while devouring multiple servings.

served with yogurt and papads.

really sticks to your ribs

(and alas, likely to yr hips)

milagai

[Monica Bhide]

sounds great - care to post a recipe? that sounds delightful

[Edward]

My snowy weather lunch today was a soul satisfying keema, a gingery-garlicky aloo gobhi and big stack of hot freshly made chapati. That bise-bele sounds good too!

E

[BBhasin]

Nothing Indian!

which made me wonder how often do you cook/eat Indian?

three meals a day? Daily? couple of days weekly?

but back to monica's topic, days like today make me long for Bread Pakoras, Malpoa, masalla chai, jalebis and the like.

edited to add garam garam halwa.

Edited January 19, 2005 by BBhasin (log)

[Monica Bhide]

Ah --- I wish I could snap my fingers and have it all here - i want to eat and am feeling lazy to do the work for it!

[Peppertrail]

It is snowing in New York too. Which always make me want to cook something spicy hot. No desserts. Just finished making okra sambar and some aviyal and tomato chutney to go with it. Waiting for the rice to be done - just plain rice. I need that with my sambar.

[redfox]

We had a nice spicy dal over scrambled eggs (weird, I know, but we like it) and a salad of shredded carrots with cumin and lime and other nice things.

[CharityCase]

We had a nice spicy dal over scrambled eggs (weird, I know, but we like it) and a salad of shredded carrots with cumin and lime and other nice things.

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Peppertrail could you please share your recipe for Aviyal wih me? By private message or publicly if you think others might like it.

[Milagai]

Peppertrail could you please share your recipe for Aviyal wih me? By private message or publicly if you think others might like it.

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[Peppertrail]

CharityCase & Milagai:

The recipe for aviyal is on my web site at http://www.peppertrail.com/php/displayCont...&parent_link=10

It is also on this thread -

Non Indian vegetable- their use in indian kitchens, Lot of curiosity of their kinds

But please reduce the quantity of coconut oil to 1/3 cup from 1/2 cup. It was a typo I missed correcting. Monica is it possible to correct it?

[scott123]

We had a nice spicy dal over scrambled eggs (weird, I know, but we like it) and a salad of shredded carrots with cumin and lime and other nice things.

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It's not that weird - I love hard cooked egg korma.

[Pan]

Relevant to Milagai's recipe:

Methi = fenugreek

Dhaniya = coriander (I had to look that one up.)

[susruta]

In Chicago the blizzard came and went yesterday. For lunch I made a hearty punjabi meal of sarson da saag (using frozen mustard greens and spinach) with a packaged dal makhani (wasn't too bad!) and corn tortillas (makki di roti). For dinner I made pork vindaloo. I don't usually cook so much but we were housebound all day, so it seemed like a good thing to do .

[Episure]

If it was snowing here I would eat this:

Now, now, girls dont cry

Edited January 24, 2005 by Episure (log)

[bague25]

You love to make us suffer, don't you?? hai hai!!

[Episure]

I wonder how many others apart from Bague know what's in the picture. Guesses?

[gingerly]

tis' el dorado..see.. see how it shines..

soo close..

[Monica Bhide]

If it was snowing here I would eat this:

Now, now, girls dont cry

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Looks like a loaded pau bhaji stand to me.. but then these days nothing surprises me. Gosh just looking at it is making me homesick and I just got back.

Thanks Episure

[Peppertrail]

I admit I don't know what it is . But I love the serving dish. Wide rim to place lemon slices, tomato flowers and onions. Does it have a heating element underneath to keep the dish warm? Is this something new?

Edited January 27, 2005 by Peppertrail (log)

[Edward]

looks like pav bhaji to me......I want to reach into the computer screen and grab some of those nimbu and onions....two things which, in India, have a very special taste!

Edited January 27, 2005 by Edward (log)

[Episure]

Pav Bhaji it is indeed.

Anmmini, it's a regular Pav bhaji tawa, just looks peculiar because it's a night shot and has a overhead lamp. Like this too.

Edited January 27, 2005 by Episure (log)

[Monica Bhide]

Suresh -- Dont do this to me -- it is torture.

Gorgeous pictures though -- very nice.

Is that what you are eating in Blore -- where?

[Geetha]

This is a really nice I wonder if it could be converted to when it is too cold to go outside

Very inspiring to read, and thanks episure, made me almost reach out for the heat from pav bhaji stand. The pav looks great it is always a special memory to me.

[Peppertrail]

Suresh & Monica:

I have pav bhaji question. I tasted pav bhaji for the first time in the U.S. Yes, I moved here before pav bhaji reached the south. I wonder if it has really reached Kerala yet I love the bhaji part. My question is why is such a tasty vegetable dish served on ---bread? Was the original pav something else? something like homemade chapathi type perhaps?