Kitchen dilatory
Jun. 26th, 2013 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceBless me, internets, for I have skimped; it has been two days since my last KD entry. I neglected entirely to tell you about feeding the yogis on Monday night, how I made saag gosht without the saag and actually probably not gosht either because not lamb, and how I had to make another curry because of apricots, and...
Let me try this-all in another order.
Jeannie brought me apricots. I was going to make an apricot cake, only I lacked ground almonds which they call almond flour over here, and there was none in the store, and I probably couldn't be bothered to grind my own because I have done that and it's a pain. So then I had apricots loose in my head as I mulched around the store; but I had already picked up beef for dinner, so it was too late to go the lamb-and-apricot route. But chicken-and-apricot is also good, and I could pick up a tin of coconut milk and make a Thai-like curry to go alongside the beef-and-spinach that I intended.
Only when I got home I had forgotten the spinach; but I still had a lot of green coriander/cilantro, and I have a Lost Recipe in my head, from a book that seems to have vanished utterly from human ken and/or my library. It was an Indian green curry, where the green came entirely from herbs; I suspect it was lamb/cilantro/mint, but I may never know. Every now and then, I try to recreate it from first principles. So I made a beef curry with lots of cilantro, and a chicken curry with coconut and apricots - and if anyone has the trick of cooking things in coconut milk without the oil separating out, do please share it, because I surely do not have it, no.
Last night Karen and I ate leftovers, viz the beef-and-sweet-potato tagine with a warm red cabbage salad that I really rather liked, and sesame-roasted potatoes that we both adored. Tonight Dave and Katherine are here, and I'm going to make a big bowl of rice and we'll just eat everything else that's left over in the fridge, with dollops of pickle and chutney and sour cream and harissa and whatever. Yum. And then we will have cleaned out the fridge too, which is an act of virtue.
In other food-related newses, my Hobart KitchenAid vintage mixer has left Arizona and is currently in LA. I do love tracking. Even though it gives me yet more opportunities to twitch: it's been sitting there in the Bell Gardens depot for 25 hours! Exactly! What are they doing? Why isn't it moving? Do they have no trucks, planes, personnel...?
Let me try this-all in another order.
Jeannie brought me apricots. I was going to make an apricot cake, only I lacked ground almonds which they call almond flour over here, and there was none in the store, and I probably couldn't be bothered to grind my own because I have done that and it's a pain. So then I had apricots loose in my head as I mulched around the store; but I had already picked up beef for dinner, so it was too late to go the lamb-and-apricot route. But chicken-and-apricot is also good, and I could pick up a tin of coconut milk and make a Thai-like curry to go alongside the beef-and-spinach that I intended.
Only when I got home I had forgotten the spinach; but I still had a lot of green coriander/cilantro, and I have a Lost Recipe in my head, from a book that seems to have vanished utterly from human ken and/or my library. It was an Indian green curry, where the green came entirely from herbs; I suspect it was lamb/cilantro/mint, but I may never know. Every now and then, I try to recreate it from first principles. So I made a beef curry with lots of cilantro, and a chicken curry with coconut and apricots - and if anyone has the trick of cooking things in coconut milk without the oil separating out, do please share it, because I surely do not have it, no.
Last night Karen and I ate leftovers, viz the beef-and-sweet-potato tagine with a warm red cabbage salad that I really rather liked, and sesame-roasted potatoes that we both adored. Tonight Dave and Katherine are here, and I'm going to make a big bowl of rice and we'll just eat everything else that's left over in the fridge, with dollops of pickle and chutney and sour cream and harissa and whatever. Yum. And then we will have cleaned out the fridge too, which is an act of virtue.
In other food-related newses, my Hobart KitchenAid vintage mixer has left Arizona and is currently in LA. I do love tracking. Even though it gives me yet more opportunities to twitch: it's been sitting there in the Bell Gardens depot for 25 hours! Exactly! What are they doing? Why isn't it moving? Do they have no trucks, planes, personnel...?