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For a potluck, I was going to make a vegetarian curry. You already know a way to make the normal curry but you want it to be somehting special especially for Thanksgiving. I searched for  Aloo Korma  and found this recipe interesting because of the presence of fried onions. Earlier I have used fried onions in green bean casserole or biryani but nothing else. I was excited about the recipe because of the twist in the ingredients. As befits our modern life, recipe viewership, I saw the recipe here and there, I was happily swimming along with the bits and pieces I gathered from the recipe, and then suddenly I wondered how do we use the fried onions? May be garnishing? I went back to the recipe with the investigative streak, ofcourse not as thoroughly and maybe sort of udnerstood that the onion paste was from the fried onions. I went back to the video today and did see that the onions were fried as part of the process. If the initial picture showed raw onions, I wouldnt even have ...

While reading  Insignificant events in the life of a cactus , I came across these - Buttered Noodles. It will remain as the first dish we ordered for our daughter at  Panera Bakery. "Tarantula have no teeth, so they use their venom.." New at a school experience - " a thousand kids who had never seen me before" cowboy beans, cornbread and coleslaw lollipops with scorpion "this is still a library"

7.16.2019 After watching a video of  Kinpira , I appreicated its simplicity and made it for a potluck. It can be done with    julienne carrot and   potato  

 A Journey of Thousand steps begins with a small step - Lao Tzu Paraphrased into cooking Every recipe starts with a single ingredient. Today all I knew, when I started making the curry was that it was going to be Tofu curry. I also knew that I would be using up the ground groundnut/peanut powder in it. In the first place, the peanut powder came to be, because I added it late in the  sabudana vada  game. There was some left over.  At this point, it was only going to be Tofu curry with peanut powder. while the onions were sweating it out with the crushed peanuts, I realised a gravy was stirring up. I gave my little one a chance to cut up the tofu - the only vegetable that she can cut because it is soft. In a karate chop, she wielded some gross cuts to the Tofu which ended up as good chunks.  When the Tofu chunks joined the party, it looked done. This is where I would call it a day. Infact, Tofu was the chosen candidate for a day like this. With 3 more such Tofu bo...