[Leica] Nathan's PAD 26/5 and 28/5: good food

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Your curry looks like anything we may make at home - pretty authentic!

In the South of India, "curry" or "kari" denotes a dish without gravy, a
dry dish, either of vegetables, meat or a combination, lightly tempered
with spices. Remember that "Spicy" is not the equivalent of "Chilly Hot",
they are two entirely different flavour profiles. To the world,
unfortunately, Indian Cuisine denotes the Punjabi/North West Frontier type,
with everything overcooked, floating in oil and drenched in red chili and
spices. I will not even mention the unspeakable and thoroughly uneatable
Chicken Tikka Masala, an abomination, if ever there was one in the name of
Indian food!

You should try cooking South Indian food, which tends to be much lighter,
steamed more often than fried, and much healthier. Of course all this has
evolved as a function of the weather and local availability of ingredients.

This book, in its various iterations, has for many generations, been given
to Tamil brides as a recipe book, including my wife - its the standard for
our Tamilian food:

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Samaithu-Paar-S-Meenakshi-Hardcover/dp/B011W97AAA/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496026342&sr=1-5&refinements=p_27%3AS.+Meenakshi+Ammal

Have fun!

Cheers
Jayanand




On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Some food porn from Friday night and from this afternoon.
> On Friday, I cooked what BBC has labelled the “original curry”, a result
> of an archeological excavation in India. It is kind of cool to cook a
> recipe from 4000 years ago. And it tastes delicious and is vegan:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zFMtHXh/A
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> Today, we were invited for a lunch of arroz meloso (a kind of paella but
> with more liquid than the touristy stuff you get when you go into a generic
> Spanish restaurant). Our contribution was my wife’s American cheesecake,
> which is always a big hit:
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> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qxRGSmX/A
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qmbbZ5M/A
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> Bon apetit!
>
> Nathan
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