Skip to main content

How recipes travel?

 

Kansas Kitchen - Imagic Plant-Based Taco Crumbles - Flavored, Textured Vegetable Protein 


The first time I heard of soy protein was as a kid. My father attended a marriage and told about this mock meat which wasnt meat.

Recently my daughter wanted me to soak some of the soy chunks. She had a plan, I wasnt privy to yet. This was after I told her that I was cooking noodles.

She was going to make something she loved at her friend's place. After she was done with adding the soychunks and cooking, supported with extra dash of ketchup, I realised it was supposed to be meatballs for non red meat eaters.

How do you braid recipes into your repertoire of cooking? I once saw a friend's sister make cabbage but with an important first step which is loaded with urad daal thats well sauteed. Now thats the only way I make cabbage thats mandolin cut. 

Another friends mom sent cauliflower curry as a care package during a tough time. The cauliflower curry had many other vegetables and peas added to it. A medley. With food, we are living our own history every day. Recalling how our parents and relatives cooked, long after you have eaten the dish.

Having tried this from a restaurant, I was curious about making of Palnati Kodi kura. Interesting way of cooking peanuts in excess salt so they dont get burned.

Save 50.0% on select products from ULTRA-SOY with promo code 50KPFINVEST, through 2/25 while supplies last.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Vadi biyyam

Vadi Biyyam We do this for the 21st day of baby's birth. The rice is then cooked in a couple of days, with all neighbours invited for lunch. number of times a woman can receive lap rice odi biyyam songs

Egg Malai Masala

  Egg Malai Masala  Its fun when things turn out as they should. I pureed the onions and then cooked them well. I added the milk for the egg Malai Masala and made chicken curry with other half of the onion base. I used kasoori methi in both. Many times I have felt the onions grainy, but this time I got it right. Patience.

Mohanthal

Today I learnt of Mohanthal from a neighbor at community potluck. One of the dishes was a malai kofta made from mexican squash. Another neighbor spoke about how hard she found to make batura. She said that as she would shape the dough, it would spring back to its original shape. That makes me appreciate the complexity of dishes and the act of cooking. My neighbor impressed with my interest in he sweet, shared some Mohanthal with us. It is truly a sweet from heaven. I was reminded of a sweet from my marriage. Another neighbor quipped about the satisfactoin of eating when very hungry and not as much when you eat on time everyday, which resonated in the following lines of Charles Bukowski in  Wandering in the cage. "the best thing about near-starvation and hunger is that when you finally eat it is such a beautiful and delicious and magical thing. people who eat 3 meals a day throughout life have never really tasted food… "