While riding along in Berkeley, I signaled for a left turn, but Pirate wasn't paying attention and plowed right into me. Result: skinned knee, large bruise on left thigh, punched in the lower right abdomen by the end of my handlebars, and a rip in my all-but-brand-new (had them less than a week) B. Spoke Tailor pinstriped wool riding knickers ( Read more... )

For the cardamom fans on my f-list (and merle_ in particular) - a roundup of recipes from the "Think Spice: Think Cardamom" event on various Indian foodblogs.

Savory dinner dishes, sweet dessert dishes, beverages - you name it, here's a cardamom-flavored version thereof.

Hungry now.


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Dinner last night was lemon rice, leftover Gujarati-style dal, and a vegetable dish put together from "hmm, what do we have in the pantry and freezer?" Adapted from a recipe for achari aloo, ruthlessly and brutally de-authenticized for your convenience and enjoyment. *grin*

Lexi's Achari Saag-Mattar (Achari-spiced spinach and peas)Spinach and peas ( Read more... )

• Taskmaster Brain thinks I should be doing a second round of my E-cises instead of sitting in front of the computer eating wonton crisps and drinking homemade sparkling ginger lemonade. Nobody is listening to Taskmaster Brain, which makes the poor thing very frustrated.
  
  
• I've got... hm, what to call it? Sort of a leftover chain going. Dinner tonight ( Read more... )

Adapted from a recipe for squash poriyal (stir-fried summer squash) in Suvir Saran's Indian Home Cooking.

Ruthlessly, brutally de-authenticized for your convenience and pleasure. *grin*

On my pantry cooking scale*, this isn't quite Pure Pantry, as it calls for frozen corn, so I'll put it in the Pantry On Ice section.

Lexi's Not-Really-New-Delhi- ( Read more... )

It's gratifying when you haven't cooked a recipe in quite a while, and still remember the modifications that you'd figured out previously.

I made cashew-lemon rice (cashew-artichoke-lemon in the original, but we never have canned or frozen artichoke hearts around) for dinner. It's quite a tasty recipe, with one modification: at the end, add the ( Read more... )

In the aftermath of my foot injury, I really missed cooking. It's been satisfying to get back in the kitchen again.

Dinner tonight was leftover dal, tortillas (since I haven't yet tried making chapatis), and pattypan thiyal, a Keralan dish of zucchini cooked with onions, coconut, and tamarind. Very tasty, although as usual I had to boost the ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been way too long since the monkey and I got down to the Grand Lake Farmers' Market in Splashpad Park. My farmers' market reflexes have gotten rusty - I didn't even do the usual scope the whole market before deciding where to buy thing, I just headed for the first stall selling stone fruit ( Read more... )