Hello everyone
Meeting up with friends and impromptu cooking adventures perked me up last week. I experimented with corned beef for the first time, two different ways (sous vide and pressure cooker), made Kerala meat puffs for my friend’s mom (who grew up there), and tried an old school self-saucing chocolate cake for a collaborative dinner party with friends.
Loaded up on vegetables in Chinatown and elsewhere, and hit a couple unexpectedly good meat deals so I stocked up a bit. And I now have sourdough starter from a friend so I need to learn about that so I can try out a test loaf!
Ideas for the week:
– Spinach souffle or kuku or crespelle (or all, I just sauteed down a bag of spinach) + salad
– Kimchi fried rice or Kimchi pancake / Kimchijeon (with added cabbage) + fried egg
– Swordfish kababs + lentil salad + greens
– Trumpet mushroom and black fungus stir-fry Malaysian-style (approximating a delicious restaurant dish I ate last week) + quinoa-rice blend + greens
– Thai chicken satay bowls (using TJs ready sauce) OR Thai green curry chicken with assorted veg + quinoa-rice blend
More involved ideas:
– Chicken Akhni (Pulao) – want to recreate a dish a friend’s mom cooked for me last year. Apparently a Memon community recipe that uses a green herb base and coconut milk. Maybe a spinach burhani / raita on the side.
– Goat curry of some sort, maybe Champaran or Mangsho + green veg + quinoa-rice blend.
Will add a soup or two, at least one with lentils, for accompaniment through the week.
Plus Pongal , which I have been finding simple, filling, and comforting at any time of the day.
Also want to try a single serving of the eggless version of the self-saucing cake, or bake a small chocolate loaf cake.
Enjoy your week!
